How I Used My Phone Between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. During My Kid’s First Month
A new person means being awake and somewhat aware during the middle of the night. In order to maintain that state I’ve used my phone somewhat differently for the last month.
I learned that I don’t want to watch anything. It’s too difficult to go back to sleep.
I don’t want comedy. Comedy keeps me awake.
I don’t want anything sad or depressing or dark about kids but that’s not a new thing, just since I had a kid.
But I do need to stay awake. Based on what my phone tells me, this I what I listened to, read and purchased between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. during my kid’s first month of existence*.
Listened to 8 hours about Black Saturday on The Lapsed Fan
Listened to 4 hours of The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach by Sarah Stodola
Listened to 3 hours of Up First
Listened to 3 hours of the Sports Illustrated Media Podcast
Listened to 2 hours of the Wrestling News
Listened to 1 hour of 100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet by Pamela Paul
Listened to 1 hour of Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town by Barbara Demick
Listened to 30 minutes of The Sporkful
Read (perused, really) 70 magazines via the Libby app
Read 30 New York Times Cooking recipes, ended up making 4
Read 12 Wirecutter pieces
Read 5 Chicago Bulls season previews
Read 2 Chicago Blackhawks season previews
Read the Scream 5 Wikipedia
Read the Scream franchise Wikipedia
Read the Scream 6 Wikipedia
Read Neve Campbell’s Wikipedia
Read the Halloween franchise Wikipedia
Read The Munsters (2022) Wikipedia
Read The Washington Post home page nightly
Read The New York Times home page nightly
Read Chicago White Sox game recaps until they were statistically eliminated from the playoffs
Read anything about the Chicago Bears until their loss to the Washington Commanders
Read about the James Codren being a dick at a restaurant story
Tweeted once
Started and scrapped multiple drafts exploring the best two comedy performances of the last decade: Conner O’Malley in Detroiters S2E4 and Conner O’Malley in Joe Pera Talks with You S2E6
Designed and did not order custom Nikes
Designed and did not order custom Vans
Purchased and later returned two separate pairs of Adidas shoes
Ordered groceries for pickup from separate grocery stores, forgetting items explicitly needed for planned recipes in both orders
Ordered a case of wine
Ordered Halloween candy
Ordered Halloween makeup
Ordered witch hats
Scrolled through Instagram for hours, following 10 accounts that post ‘vintage’ horror and pop culture pictures
Reorganized apps into folders to make it more difficult to open apps and easier to see the phone background
*If you believe life begins at conception you’ve never fed a baby in the middle of the night.
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