Word: yawningly
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...which is why I subscribed to the service in the first place and why I'll maintain my subscription despite the fact that it often makes me feel as though America were a high-tech hologram and I were a futuristic ghost. This feeling struck me acutely during a yawn-inducing 10-hour drive from Montana to Colorado via Wyoming. Except in feeble, quivering bursts, normal radio signals can't conquer that barrenness, but thanks to some wonderful gizmo in outer space, I was able to stay in touch with the most minute developments in the Michael Jackson trial...
Just as the choice for the title of the record might suggest, Mice Parade is subtle music made by subtle people. It feels extremely small, and it’s meant to, like the musical equivalent of a shrug, a sigh, a yawn...
...airman's cocky stoicism. Violent death may be inevitable, but problem solving goes on until the moment of impact. There is also a sixth sense of machinery that Yeager calls his "knowledgeable feel," his love of engines and valves "and all those mechanical gadgets that make most people yawn." Time and again this supersonic Zen led to discovery of critical data: a bolt installed upside down that caused several fatal crashes, a mental flash of a mispositioned stabilizer that saved his life...
Maybe you have a big report due first thing in the morning. Or you're trying to deliver a truckload of fish before the wholesale market opens 150 miles away. Whatever the reason, you decide to stifle that yawn and push through the night. Sure, you've been awake 16 hours, but you have a giant thermos of coffee and a few tunes to keep you going. Your body, of course, is fighting you every step of the way. Whether or not you realize it, your brain has already started to check out for the night...
...That yawn was the first sign that you're not so awake as you think. After about 18 hours without sleep, your reaction time begins to slow from a quarter of a second to half a second and then longer. If you're like most people, you will start to experience bouts of microsleep--moments when you zone out for anywhere from two to 20 seconds and drift out of your lane or find that you have to keep rereading the same passage. Your...