The bedroom of my apartment opens onto a small balcony, with a glass door under a glass transom next to a large window. Because of the unique layout, it’s taken quite a while to figure out a blinds / shades solution that might work. And, in the interim, I’ve woken every morning at 6:00am, to the bright sun streaming in.

Left to my own devices, I’d normally sleep until 8:00 or so, and it’s amazing how much you can accomplish with a couple extra hours to your morning. Bedtime habits die hard, however, and I’ve therefore been staying up much too late (something I’d already been guilty of relative to an 8:00am wakeup) and reliably short-sleeping.

Turns out, four hours of sleep, for weeks at a time, isn’t really ideal. I’m hoping to get the blinds in shortly, lest my life start turning into an episode of The Walking Dead.