This Week In Lights Out: Light, Dose, Drainage, Pieces
A clock two hours late, a dose thirty times too big, a wash cycle that only runs at night, and the number your doctor never asks for.
The equinox came and went on Tuesday evening, and this week turned out to be about what a night is actually for. Four jobs, four issues. Not one of them is about wanting it more.
Here is the week, on four cards.
THE WEEK IN FOUR CARDS
MONDAY
A week of camping shifted eight clocks two hours earlier, on daylight alone.
Get outside within an hour of waking, leave the sunglasses indoors, and remember that a window is not the same as a doorstep.
Signal, dose, drainage, continuity. Four jobs your night was always doing, and four ways the modern evening interrupts them.
If you only do one thing: go and read the dose printed on the melatonin in your cupboard.
WEEKEND CHALLENGE
Write down your longest unbroken stretch, two mornings running.
Not the total. The longest single piece, as best you can tell. Most women are shocked by how small that number turns out to be, and it is the one figure worth taking to a doctor.