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...difference between night and day is not what it used to be for Tony Warren. After a couple of years of steady shift work, the 27-year-old Atlanta resident--a part-time waiter and full-time graduate student in computer engineering-- has embraced an existence of almost nonstop wakefulness that would turn most normal human beings into drooling, hallucinating zombies...
...home late like that over and over again, then you just can't fall asleep as easy. So you stay up an hour. Then an hour becomes two hours. Then the next thing you know, the sun's coming up as you're going to sleep." Eventually, Warren says, "you start to realize it's daytime and you could be doing something with your time, like schoolwork or whatever. Now it's easy to stay up. I can go a day and a half without sleep as long as I keep my mind active. Sleep becomes annoying once you realize...
...inability to sleep is called insomnia, but what do you call the unwillingness to sleep, as in Warren's case? "Somnorexia"? Perhaps it's time this condition had a name, because in this age of flexible work schedules, all-night dining, round-the-clock cable news and home espresso makers, it may be far more common than people suspect. For certain restless, overscheduled Americans intent on squeezing more labor, more fun, more family time and more sheer activity from their lives, the traditional 24-hour day has become an anachronistic inconvenience, much like the sit-down evening meal. Though early...
Hardened veterans of the nocturnal lifestyle seldom report such problems, and quite a few of them, like Tony Warren, claim they have drastically reduced their need for sustained periods of pillow time. Jason Hensel, 32, a Dallas magazine editor and musician, admits to occasionally daydreaming at work but otherwise has few complaints about a routine that others would find grueling. After putting in nine hours at his day job, Hensel rehearses with his band until 10 p.m. or so and then either heads out for nightclubs or settles in for a late night of DVD viewing. For Hensel, four hours...
...alumni bands convened at the Lizard Lounge to play a set of heart-felt and polished songs off of their debut album, Presenting the Great Unknowns. This 10-song collection of “rock music for the road,” as lead singer and rhythm guitarist Becky Warren dubs it, was released by Daemon Records...