the psychosis of night shifts
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Ian Scuffling
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I'm convinced night shifts driving a cab for uni students in 2021 drove me psychotic. Fucked my sleep schedule up permanently which magnified the weight of the various interpersonal crises I dealt with in the subsequent 6 months in a way that certainly did not help my judgment. Looking back at how I felt and how I behaved back then genuinely feels like thinking about a different person. I'm not cut out for it anymore. That said, when I did it in my teens I liked it. Read a lot of good novels and did take some pleasure in the aesthetic. Wouldn't do it again but, to be a bit trite, learned a lot about myself.
mixed_biscuits
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Scorsese did a documentary about this.
Ian Scuffling
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The guy who wrote that film is spiritually a maternal great uncle of mine
mixed_biscuits
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Spiritually?
Ian Scuffling
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No, John Calvin. I'm dutch
Murphy
cat malogen
Haven’t done a thing since 7pm apart from play the kids at chess online and ensure our Kid here doesn’t stray into a disastrous financial humiliation relationship with an online ‘girl’ he ‘met’ thru Gus’s escort rarely seen girlfriend, as confirmed by The Dudes
An uncanny way of working, the ecosystems of knowledge around where might be open re insert problem, eg pharmacy or if a unit has its own pharmacy. If you’d told me 25 years ago I’d be surrounded by about 10,000 time released oxy tablets (just sublingually wait for the coating to disperse), never would have believed the volumes
The lighting of building varies - halogen strip lighting, older flickering standard house bulbs in side rooms that must have served as out bedrooms at one point in one gaff, Victorian units where the lamps have been adjusted from candle to gas to electrical but they retain their original shape, deep blue colour and design (one small detail), the wings with panelled stained-glass windows hardly anyone visits. Not eerie - warm, familiar now, count the steps and turns and light switch placements and alarms in case it kicks off or a death
White lights, pearl bedside light, blue shifting day rooms empty with chairs in horse shoes, peach amber in Victoriana, the light of open glass-sided office spaces where renovations have worked so you get an entire floor lit in summer with air con boasting the ideals of old and new hybridised. In the night? It’s just a moraine of coloured light dots - wifi blue, pale red power extension multi plugs, and in the deepest reaches past closed hr and admin pools complete with photos of loved ones and friends and a card here and there, across appalling desk units spruced into dens, a web of glowing hibernation
An uncanny way of working, the ecosystems of knowledge around where might be open re insert problem, eg pharmacy or if a unit has its own pharmacy. If you’d told me 25 years ago I’d be surrounded by about 10,000 time released oxy tablets (just sublingually wait for the coating to disperse), never would have believed the volumes
The lighting of building varies - halogen strip lighting, older flickering standard house bulbs in side rooms that must have served as out bedrooms at one point in one gaff, Victorian units where the lamps have been adjusted from candle to gas to electrical but they retain their original shape, deep blue colour and design (one small detail), the wings with panelled stained-glass windows hardly anyone visits. Not eerie - warm, familiar now, count the steps and turns and light switch placements and alarms in case it kicks off or a death
White lights, pearl bedside light, blue shifting day rooms empty with chairs in horse shoes, peach amber in Victoriana, the light of open glass-sided office spaces where renovations have worked so you get an entire floor lit in summer with air con boasting the ideals of old and new hybridised. In the night? It’s just a moraine of coloured light dots - wifi blue, pale red power extension multi plugs, and in the deepest reaches past closed hr and admin pools complete with photos of loved ones and friends and a card here and there, across appalling desk units spruced into dens, a web of glowing hibernation
Murphy
cat malogen
Can’t upload a direct site photo but almost identical with the glass modernised side to the left in shadowed pearly-peach light from high ceiling lamps in almost-chandelier arrays
like Danny in The Shining - boots (no 28 Years Jocko Kipling) go clump clump clump clump frrrr frrr frrrr frrrr clump clump clump clump
like Danny in The Shining - boots (no 28 Years Jocko Kipling) go clump clump clump clump frrrr frrr frrrr frrrr clump clump clump clump
william_kent
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best hotel carpet EVER
Murphy
cat malogen
Vast double doors with floor bolts and ceiling latches. Doors closing off main waiting rooms by 7:30pm, reopening 6:45am by porters, then a group coffee with colleagues on duty and always filtered - they don’t fuck around - to briefly decompress
One of these places has wings which no-one has really audited fully since before the pandemic, in the process of an upgrade but it’s a wicked shortcut and sounds a lot like
One of these places has wings which no-one has really audited fully since before the pandemic, in the process of an upgrade but it’s a wicked shortcut and sounds a lot like