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So are these distinct alarms for different tasks/events, or are they like all emergency backup alarms, one-per-minute for every chance she might oversleep?
Since Dorothy is typically an early riser, I imagine they’re alarms for tasks like “alarm for jog, alarm for breakfast, alarm to study, alarm to email someone” etc etc.
College was, for me, long enough ago that alarms were to be found on alarm clocks, and only one at a time. But damn, I was doing the same thing Dorothy is maybe two minutes before seeing the comic.
I have a set of alarms at precise intervals that cascade so that after you snooze the fourth one or so you basically are getting hit with an alarm every minute or so.
Sometimes it takes this to get me up. The kids’ teachers are remarkably unforgiving when the kids are late to school *again*.
Well I have a friend who has to take her meds precisely the same time every day down to the minute or they’re way less effective, and she has almost as many alarms because some are like three times a day.
She normally wakes up around 5-6ish to jog. She can skip it and sleep in until she has to get up and eat for class (assuming she has any today anyway).
I definitely had a few Saturday classes in college. I’m inclined to think she doesn’t or she wouldn’t be sleeping in because she’s Dorothy but class on Saturday is a thing that can happen.
I would also be unsurprising with all the stress she’s been under and all the pressure she’s been putting on herself “sleeping in” turns into waking up Sunday morning because she’s seriously short on restful sleep.
I don’t know. I keep setting alarms to get up early, then new ones for 15 minutes later when I realize I am so exhausted on 4 hours of sleep that I can’t move, only to repeat the cycle again and again and I am fine. I mean I haven’t made progress in my life for a week, I’m always tired, and I want to pull my hair out, but it’s nothing getting up early won’t fix.
I feel their struggle. I am the ND where sleep schedules don’t exist, and when they have to exist for appointments and shit, it is whole body brain visceral PAIN
Mood. It’s worth talking to a doctor about it to get medication. Seroquel works for me, without it I literally do not sleep. It’s not a knock out pill like Ambien, just enough to make me sleepy when I wanna be and then actually sleep through the night instead of a light 3 hour nap
Yeah, as of recently I’ve been self-medicating with Benadryl, but yeah given the fact that it also gets my baseline anxiety down, i might actually try out some anti-histamine based anxiety medication provided it’s safe.
I’m not quite that bad, but I DO have the normal alarm and a second one for a few minutes later bc I HAVE AND WILL sleep through the first one, which is always horrible bc the first one is a vibrating alarm (sleep with earplugs in since spouse snores)
YES I DO FEEL IT, NO I CANNOT WAKE UP FROM SLEEP PARALYSIS ALL THE TIME
As someone who has multiple alarms set every morning (I tend to wake up in stages) and has to do exactly this when I want to sleep in, I feel so called out.
As someone who distinctly Not A Morning Person ™ and does set several alarms for when I need to get up, I feel like… a morning person doing this is… odd? Either she’s not a morning person and has been forcing herself to keep the schedule of one, or she’s been sleeping so badly that despite being a morning person she needs that many alarms. Neither of which is good.
I am very much a morning person (naturally wake up around 4-6am) and I definitely set alarms like this anyway. I’m very anxious about being late for things and keeping on schedule, so I have alarms that are 10 minute warnings for other alarms so I can be ready to act on that alarm the moment it goes off for real
I very much have the impression that these are various alarms for things she doesn’t want to forget to do as opposed to an escalating alarm for getting up.
right yeah only one of my alarms is a wake up alarm and since I usually wake up before it, it functions more as a “time to get out of bed and get ready” alarm, but my reminders app is full of all sorts of bullshit reminders for little things
I did this. One every fifteen minutes, from “two hours before I need to be out the door” to “when I need to be out the door.” Eventually I got to the point where my body somehow learned to tune out the alarms, to the point that even when I scaled the alarms back to counteract this, I was sleeping through the ones that were actually important.
I am fortunate enough that usually I only have to wake up at a time when I’d naturally be awake anyway. When I have an important appointment, I still set an alarm. I don’t need it to wake up (I’ll be awake anyway by the time it rings). On the contrary: I need this alarm to be able to sleep without it, I would have a shitty sleep and wake up so often while it’s still way too early… because I’d be subconsciously scared to oversleep and miss my appointment. But with the alarm set, my body and subconscious can relax: as long as it didn’t ring yet, it’s okay to just sleep!
It’s apparently something natural. The way I heard it described is that it’s your body preparing for the stress of dealing with the alarm clock. Isn’t that funny?
Which is why I do the opposite. I never set alarms, except when I ACTUALLY REALLY NEED TO GET UP RIGHT NOW. And that important alarm is always the same melody, and never used for anything unimportant. This does the opposite of tuning out: When I hear the first two notes of that alarm, I am *awake* no matter how little sleep I got before. Works like a charm.
Yeah, it took me a while to learn this. My body has its own rhythm and I let it do its thing and in return I feel less shitty in the morning. Not like… good. But less shitty.
Yeah I really don’t get the point of the snooze button: either you can sleep until that moment, or you can’t.
Having lived with people with snooze for anything has been a nightmare.
Inside me are two wolves. They both want to keep sleeping, but one knows we have to get up and get a variable amount of ready for the day sooner or later.
I’m starting to see two groups here. One is saying, “what’s the big deal? I have reminder blips all day long.” The other is saying, “wow, that many alarms to wake up? what do you mean, ‘reminders’?”
Weird thing is, I do enjoy my reminders. How else would one remember to water the plants or sort through the email inbox? I even wrote an app just to remind me of such things in a less stressful way.
But I just feel so crap when an alarm wakes me up. I’d rather go to bed at ungodly times (8pm sometimes) just so I can naturally wake up way before anything important happens.
Which has had the added bonus of eliminating that insomnia caused by ‘augh if I don’t fall asleep RIGHT NOW I won’t get enough sleep and will be tired tomorrow so why am I still awake fall asleep already dammit”. Cause it doesn’t matter if I lie awake two more hours. Well I lose two hours, but I’ll be fine the next day either way. So my stupid brain goes “It doesn’t matter? Ok cool let’s sleep”
On the one hand, I also set lots of alarms for when I want to wake up so I feel for Dorothy on that; on the other hand, I do so because I have narcolepsy, and sometimes 15 alarms still Isn’t enough to wake me up.
Oh, Dorothy. Honey. You need more than just a day of sleeping in. To be fair, most of the people in the strip could do with seeing proper psychiatric help on the regular.
wonder if that bracelet is something “connected” that check on blood rate and sleep wellness or something. It’s not really something I could wear sleeping.
I thought the same until I bought one last month. I got used to wearing it to bed surprisingly fast, probably in less time than it took to get used to wearing a watch again during the day.
Mine also tells time, so I just ditched my failing wristwatch and wear the monitor 24/7 except for washing. DO be careful if you do this: I began to get a rash from having that patch of skin continuously covered so I wash and examine that wrist vigilantly.
The only annoying thing about it is that, if I move wrong in the night, it thinks I’m looking at it and lights up for a moment.
I never noticed it but I bet you’re right. Dorothy is 100% the sort of person who would wear a fitness tracker 24/7 anf would make sure she gets her 10,000 steps.
As someone who uses a lot of alarms (though not nearly as many), this comic is making me *cringe*. My only rationalization is that these alarms are set for today *specifically*, and she has an evening ritual every night of structuring her next morning’s routine and alarms. Haha, that’d be pretty crazy, right? Imagine doing that every night. Ha. ha.
I have multiple alarms myself – one for WFH days, one for office days, one for weekends. (I have a weekend alarm so I get the pleasure of ignoring it if I want to.) I never delete them, I just edit them and turn them on and off.
Nineteen alarms for one morning is just… turn them off! Don’t delete them!
I have one ALARM alarm to wake up, and a bunch of schedule pips from Google Calendar. Reminder pings are just a built-in part of maintaining my calendar. I’m guessing that that is what Dorothy is deleting: scheduled events.
As someone who sets alarms at awkward times intentionally (like 12:01 or 5:23) I can just instinctively tell that Dorothy’s are all at 15, 30, 45, and 00. Or at least multiples of 5.
Good catch.
Though you realize, to be fully compliant with that trope, at the end she’s gonna have to pull out a whole ‘nother phone or an actual alarm clock or something.
On topic, though; my spouse uses a butt-load of alarms, and with good reason. I swear, I’ve seen this bongo sleep through smoke alarms, fire truck sirens, anything! I swear, if I weren’t around, the girl would never. Awaken. Again.
I think the implication is she’s triaging them. She said “all”, but she’s going through each one to decide. And even if she does delete them all, she gets to feel like she’s failing 19 times.
I have a dozen or so alarms on my phone for weekdays. They’re all set a few minutes apart. They’re kind of like a snooze button, but harder to abuse and turn off en masse.
The only downside is that I have to turn them all on and off individually.
Dunno, I’ve never done that. I will realize that I want to do something specific and outside my normal routine, then figure out when I can interrupt said routine to make room for it.
“Something specific” usually means a lot of tramping around in a state park, pointing out animals and plants and things that bore the rest of the party.
For me, a mental health day (as opposed to a normal day off on the weekend) has to involve not doing anything that I don’t feel like doing in the moment. I don’t want to use the part of my mind that has to regulate me and be responsible; that’s the part that needs the most rest. I usually read a lot, eat peanut butter sandwiches instead of cooking, and get some light exercise in a pleasant location (like going for a walk in the woods). Sometimes I feel like tidying up or putting the laundry through the wash, but only if I feel like it.
This is a method that I highly recommend, rather than trying to do Wellness Things ™ like meditating or yoga that I do sometimes but don’t have a habit of doing.
ngl, mine’s pretty much this, except for 1 i wanna do something fun and relaxing like nostalgic games or talking to friends or something but just can’t T_T
(“just let yourself be happy and relax. i feel like i wanna cry”)
I need Mr Willis to know that I read his piece on Polygon and subsequently spent 5 hours reading the entire Megatron thread om the transformers wiki. I knew nothing of transformers before, but I get it now. I get the obsession. Nearly cried at the end. I’m serious. I nearly cried from a wiki page. So uh, thanks for giving me a new hyperfixation. Good times.
I kind of wonder why she doesn’t just forcibly turn off her phone, or turn off the sound on her phone instead. Sounds like a way, way easier way to accomplish this goal.
those are the kind of numbers of alarms i have when I get new foster kittens lol gotta be up every 2 hours to bottle feed and its just neverending (the ones I have now are at every 4 hours! hooray!)
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that’s alarming
…or…
wait
meanwhile MY stickerbook is just my old Chemistry lab manual (don’t ask)
I find that quite apt and creative.
Dorothy’s mental health is declining at an alarmi… damn it
Beautifully done. 🤌
Why people don’t just turn their phones off at times like this always confounds me. (Yes, I know / have heard all the rationales. Still confounded.)
I would be unable to sleep if my phone is off. What if someone likes my tweet?
So are these distinct alarms for different tasks/events, or are they like all emergency backup alarms, one-per-minute for every chance she might oversleep?
Since Dorothy is typically an early riser, I imagine they’re alarms for tasks like “alarm for jog, alarm for breakfast, alarm to study, alarm to email someone” etc etc.
Also makes me think Dorothy has never made use of the snooze button, and instead has a precisely timed set of escalating alarms
I keep thinking Dorothy is me in college, but now I’m worried Willis genuinely has some kind of spycam footage of those days somehow.
It wouldn’t surprise me considering that Zach Weinersmith has me or my spouse bugged. Not sure how he does it. Probably subdermal implants or … ?
I wouldn’t put anything past Zach Weinersmith.
College was, for me, long enough ago that alarms were to be found on alarm clocks, and only one at a time. But damn, I was doing the same thing Dorothy is maybe two minutes before seeing the comic.
I have a set of alarms at precise intervals that cascade so that after you snooze the fourth one or so you basically are getting hit with an alarm every minute or so.
Sometimes it takes this to get me up. The kids’ teachers are remarkably unforgiving when the kids are late to school *again*.
It always struck me as wildly unfair for children to get punished for being late to school when their parents were the ones causing it.
… Admittedly, that was mostly because I kept being the kid getting punished, but still. It’s not like grade-schoolers can drive themselves!
The overlap between “self micromanaging type A person” and managing ADHD is a circle
… Oh. That would explain a lot.
My memory is so bad I have an alarm for all kinds of things but this many alarms just around getting up seems a little excessive even for me.
Well I have a friend who has to take her meds precisely the same time every day down to the minute or they’re way less effective, and she has almost as many alarms because some are like three times a day.
Possibly both
Dorothy WHAT? That’s not being selfish, that’s being not self destructive.
🤮
Almost like Dorothy is kinda obsessed with destroying herself
She normally wakes up around 5-6ish to jog. She can skip it and sleep in until she has to get up and eat for class (assuming she has any today anyway).
She definitely doesn’t have any classes today. She says in the strip that it’s a Saturday.
I definitely had a few Saturday classes in college. I’m inclined to think she doesn’t or she wouldn’t be sleeping in because she’s Dorothy but class on Saturday is a thing that can happen.
I would also be unsurprising with all the stress she’s been under and all the pressure she’s been putting on herself “sleeping in” turns into waking up Sunday morning because she’s seriously short on restful sleep.
I don’t know. I keep setting alarms to get up early, then new ones for 15 minutes later when I realize I am so exhausted on 4 hours of sleep that I can’t move, only to repeat the cycle again and again and I am fine. I mean I haven’t made progress in my life for a week, I’m always tired, and I want to pull my hair out, but it’s nothing getting up early won’t fix.
This was sarcasm, right?
I feel their struggle. I am the ND where sleep schedules don’t exist, and when they have to exist for appointments and shit, it is whole body brain visceral PAIN
Mood. It’s worth talking to a doctor about it to get medication. Seroquel works for me, without it I literally do not sleep. It’s not a knock out pill like Ambien, just enough to make me sleepy when I wanna be and then actually sleep through the night instead of a light 3 hour nap
Yeah, as of recently I’ve been self-medicating with Benadryl, but yeah given the fact that it also gets my baseline anxiety down, i might actually try out some anti-histamine based anxiety medication provided it’s safe.
Mostly.
I’m not quite that bad, but I DO have the normal alarm and a second one for a few minutes later bc I HAVE AND WILL sleep through the first one, which is always horrible bc the first one is a vibrating alarm (sleep with earplugs in since spouse snores)
YES I DO FEEL IT, NO I CANNOT WAKE UP FROM SLEEP PARALYSIS ALL THE TIME
It’s being appropriately selfish. Selfishness is like salt: we all need a bit of it, but too much can be harmful.
What about the Excursions?
As someone who has multiple alarms set every morning (I tend to wake up in stages) and has to do exactly this when I want to sleep in, I feel so called out.
Dorothy, you maniac, don’t delete them. You’re just gonna have to make them again tomorrow
I bet she makes them daily anyway
That sounds like a lot of work… and she probably consults her schedule which she also needs to make. Dotty is a peak workaholic.
I’m hoping she’s just deleting Sat specific alarms realizing she needs a rest day period… that is optimistic nonsense
As someone who distinctly Not A Morning Person ™ and does set several alarms for when I need to get up, I feel like… a morning person doing this is… odd? Either she’s not a morning person and has been forcing herself to keep the schedule of one, or she’s been sleeping so badly that despite being a morning person she needs that many alarms. Neither of which is good.
wouldn’t it automatically be set up to be like “delete for today” as opposed to it just permanently deleting future settings?
iOS gives each one an on/off toggle.
I am very much a morning person (naturally wake up around 4-6am) and I definitely set alarms like this anyway. I’m very anxious about being late for things and keeping on schedule, so I have alarms that are 10 minute warnings for other alarms so I can be ready to act on that alarm the moment it goes off for real
I very much have the impression that these are various alarms for things she doesn’t want to forget to do as opposed to an escalating alarm for getting up.
right yeah only one of my alarms is a wake up alarm and since I usually wake up before it, it functions more as a “time to get out of bed and get ready” alarm, but my reminders app is full of all sorts of bullshit reminders for little things
Maybe her normal day is so full that no human brain could retain all of her commitments?
I did this. One every fifteen minutes, from “two hours before I need to be out the door” to “when I need to be out the door.” Eventually I got to the point where my body somehow learned to tune out the alarms, to the point that even when I scaled the alarms back to counteract this, I was sleeping through the ones that were actually important.
My body learned to anticipate the alarms
Even if they change, I almost always end up waking 30 minutes before them
It’s… Freaky
Then again, having Jevil scream, “I CAN DO ANYTHING!” at max volume enough times might have something to do with it
I am fortunate enough that usually I only have to wake up at a time when I’d naturally be awake anyway. When I have an important appointment, I still set an alarm. I don’t need it to wake up (I’ll be awake anyway by the time it rings). On the contrary: I need this alarm to be able to sleep
without it, I would have a shitty sleep and wake up so often while it’s still way too early… because I’d be subconsciously scared to oversleep and miss my appointment. But with the alarm set, my body and subconscious can relax: as long as it didn’t ring yet, it’s okay to just sleep!
It’s apparently something natural. The way I heard it described is that it’s your body preparing for the stress of dealing with the alarm clock. Isn’t that funny?
Which is why I do the opposite. I never set alarms, except when I ACTUALLY REALLY NEED TO GET UP RIGHT NOW. And that important alarm is always the same melody, and never used for anything unimportant. This does the opposite of tuning out: When I hear the first two notes of that alarm, I am *awake* no matter how little sleep I got before. Works like a charm.
Yeah, it took me a while to learn this. My body has its own rhythm and I let it do its thing and in return I feel less shitty in the morning. Not like… good. But less shitty.
Fun fact: I have never done morning coffee.
re: fun fact, you poor earthling 🥺
re: re: fun fact: I guess it works for them though.
Yeah I really don’t get the point of the snooze button: either you can sleep until that moment, or you can’t.
Having lived with people with snooze for anything has been a nightmare.
Inside me are two wolves. They both want to keep sleeping, but one knows we have to get up and get a variable amount of ready for the day sooner or later.
I’m starting to see two groups here. One is saying, “what’s the big deal? I have reminder blips all day long.” The other is saying, “wow, that many alarms to wake up? what do you mean, ‘reminders’?”
Weird thing is, I do enjoy my reminders. How else would one remember to water the plants or sort through the email inbox? I even wrote an app just to remind me of such things in a less stressful way.
But I just feel so crap when an alarm wakes me up. I’d rather go to bed at ungodly times (8pm sometimes) just so I can naturally wake up way before anything important happens.
Which has had the added bonus of eliminating that insomnia caused by ‘augh if I don’t fall asleep RIGHT NOW I won’t get enough sleep and will be tired tomorrow so why am I still awake fall asleep already dammit”. Cause it doesn’t matter if I lie awake two more hours. Well I lose two hours, but I’ll be fine the next day either way. So my stupid brain goes “It doesn’t matter? Ok cool let’s sleep”
I’ve found it helps to set a whole bunch of them at random intervals, then only turn some of them on every night.
For example, set an alarm for 5:26 and another for 5:32, and switch off which one is tomorrow’s “5:30” alarm.
It’s a start, anyway.
Surely there’s a ‘select all’ but hopefully she’ll actually be able to get more rest lol
OH she just like me FR
On the one hand, I also set lots of alarms for when I want to wake up so I feel for Dorothy on that; on the other hand, I do so because I have narcolepsy, and sometimes 15 alarms still Isn’t enough to wake me up.
Dorothy has at least 19, count them.
I have OCD and even I’M not THIS worried about getting up!
try getting up when ya got ADHD and autism tuggin at your body like two co-op players controlling different arms of an octopus
Autism: “I wanna get up and start coding to soothe my–”
ADHD: “NO”
Alien hand syndrome, as they say
BTW a/snow/mous/e, i don’t now how to ask this, but what do you make of it now that i’ve, ya know, embraced being called autistic?
Both of those and also depression, general anxiety, PTSD, Tourette’s, and like OSDD to top it all off
My brain is a fucking mess
AuDHD here and can so relate to this. Not the coding bit, but like, that but tailored to my interests.
People are going to panic spiral because Dorothy is sleeping in aren’t they
Hey at this rate I’m just impressed/a little worried these kids haven’t taken a mental health YEAR, never mind a day.
Can’t take a mental health day; that would require admitting something is wrong while you are desperately trying to deny it.
(looks like my last attempt got et, let’s try that again with less (obvious) meme-age)
Nothing is wrong. Everything is FINE.
She’ll just have to work EVEN HARDER later to catch up.
Nothing that can’t be fixed with just a few tweaks to the schedule.
It’s tough being the protagonists of a dramedy.
Oh, Dorothy. Honey. You need more than just a day of sleeping in. To be fair, most of the people in the strip could do with seeing proper psychiatric help on the regular.
Isn’t that the point of the whole strip?
Baby steps!
Oh honey
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I suddenly feel like watching Death Note for some reason.
I wonder why
wonder if that bracelet is something “connected” that check on blood rate and sleep wellness or something. It’s not really something I could wear sleeping.
Maybe its an electronic watch. You know so she can set more alarms on it.
I thought the same until I bought one last month. I got used to wearing it to bed surprisingly fast, probably in less time than it took to get used to wearing a watch again during the day.
Mine also tells time, so I just ditched my failing wristwatch and wear the monitor 24/7 except for washing. DO be careful if you do this: I began to get a rash from having that patch of skin continuously covered so I wash and examine that wrist vigilantly.
The only annoying thing about it is that, if I move wrong in the night, it thinks I’m looking at it and lights up for a moment.
I never noticed it but I bet you’re right. Dorothy is 100% the sort of person who would wear a fitness tracker 24/7 anf would make sure she gets her 10,000 steps.
That’s so many alarms! Just turn them off, it’ll take forever to remake them!
As someone who uses a lot of alarms (though not nearly as many), this comic is making me *cringe*. My only rationalization is that these alarms are set for today *specifically*, and she has an evening ritual every night of structuring her next morning’s routine and alarms. Haha, that’d be pretty crazy, right? Imagine doing that every night. Ha. ha.
I have multiple alarms myself – one for WFH days, one for office days, one for weekends. (I have a weekend alarm so I get the pleasure of ignoring it if I want to.) I never delete them, I just edit them and turn them on and off.
Nineteen alarms for one morning is just… turn them off! Don’t delete them!
I have one ALARM alarm to wake up, and a bunch of schedule pips from Google Calendar. Reminder pings are just a built-in part of maintaining my calendar. I’m guessing that that is what Dorothy is deleting: scheduled events.
As someone who sets alarms at awkward times intentionally (like 12:01 or 5:23) I can just instinctively tell that Dorothy’s are all at 15, 30, 45, and 00. Or at least multiples of 5.
I definitely don’t do all of mine as multiples of 5. >_>”
I also don’t set 5-10 alarms just to hopefully be woken up by one of them.
What is she a meme?
She’s the time management version of the ‘Extended Disarming’ TV Trope.
Good catch.
Though you realize, to be fully compliant with that trope, at the end she’s gonna have to pull out a whole ‘nother phone or an actual alarm clock or something.
yikes
On topic, though; my spouse uses a butt-load of alarms, and with good reason. I swear, I’ve seen this bongo sleep through smoke alarms, fire truck sirens, anything! I swear, if I weren’t around, the girl would never. Awaken. Again.
Whereas Dorothy probably never falls asleep, for fear of missing an alarm!
Which would make that dream more of a sleep-dep-induced hallucination.
I just realized I swore twice in that one entry… Greaaaaat; wonderful entrance to the Cool Kids’ Table…
Hi! Nice to have you here, I’m going to see your posts a lot as I have a terrible memory and ctrl+f for “taw” to find if I’ve commented on things.
If she’s choosing not to do a “delete all” on her alarms, this is quite exhausting to say the least
Oh Dotty girl, the pipes, THE PIPES—
What are these pipes? another earthling meme thing?
altered version of the lyrics to “Danny Boy”. The (bag)pipes, the pipes are calling…
I’m embarassed to admit that I’ve always vaguely thought they were panpipes, but bagpipes makes more sense.
Hang on, there’s someone at the door wanting to take away my Scottishness licence.
If they want to take away your Scotch, show them your alarm is maximally loud bagpipes.
Probably more specifically they’re Uilleann pipes, so you’re just on probation.
They’re from pipe storage.
I think the implication is she’s triaging them. She said “all”, but she’s going through each one to decide. And even if she does delete them all, she gets to feel like she’s failing 19 times.
I’m thinking she has afternoon and evening alarms as well and doesn’t want to loose those with a Delete All.
This is self-care — she’s succeeding nineteen times! Rawr!
I have a dozen or so alarms on my phone for weekdays. They’re all set a few minutes apart. They’re kind of like a snooze button, but harder to abuse and turn off en masse.
The only downside is that I have to turn them all on and off individually.
I knew someone in college who only got 5 hours of sleep a night, took 21 units a quarter and worked at a job
I hope she’s getting some rest now, oof
So my wife has Autism and uses about 40 alarms in the morning, so I sent her this comic
Only nineteen alarms (so far)? It’s like she’s not even trying to be organized
If she’s like me, this is the moment she loses all motivation to ever get up in the morning, ever, and never gets it back
I like that she is clever enought to understand she needs a day off.
19 alarms? Why not 20? Why???
Who said she’s finished?
Is Dorothy my wife? XD Maybe not quite as many, but still an unnecessary large number of alarms to get her to wake up.
I’m not sure they’re all “wake up” alarms, I think they’re The Schedule.
I need multiple alarms to get up, but that’s what the Snooze button is for.
Yeah considering how OCD-levels organized she is those are probably reminders for things she is supposed to do.
Settle down there, Teru Mikami.
It’s a surprise Dotty didn’t have a nightmare where she was in Alice in Wonderland… and she was the White Rabbit.
Or entered in the Red Queen’s race?
Taking a break on Saturday is a little selfish????
Girl, take a month!
At least.
Becky must be one helluva sleeper (or staying with Dina) if Dorothy just screamed out and she’s not providing immediate commentary
…Is it too late for a game?
Here’s the question:
When you take a “mental health day” or a “day off”, what do you:
A.) Want to do?
B.) Decide to do?
and/or
C.) Wind up doing?
A) rest
B) sleep
C) doomscroll in bed
:):):):):)::):):)::):)::))::)::):):))) my exhaustion is a prison of my own making
Dunno, I’ve never done that. I will realize that I want to do something specific and outside my normal routine, then figure out when I can interrupt said routine to make room for it.
“Something specific” usually means a lot of tramping around in a state park, pointing out animals and plants and things that bore the rest of the party.
That seems like doing it, though?
A. Clean my house.
B. Clean my house.
C. Sleep.
(Oh, and doomscroll. SO MUCH doomscrolling…)
A) hot steamy sex
B) sleep
C) clean up my living space a bunch and monologue about science
IMO best answer
🪐
For me, a mental health day (as opposed to a normal day off on the weekend) has to involve not doing anything that I don’t feel like doing in the moment. I don’t want to use the part of my mind that has to regulate me and be responsible; that’s the part that needs the most rest. I usually read a lot, eat peanut butter sandwiches instead of cooking, and get some light exercise in a pleasant location (like going for a walk in the woods). Sometimes I feel like tidying up or putting the laundry through the wash, but only if I feel like it.
This is a method that I highly recommend, rather than trying to do Wellness Things ™ like meditating or yoga that I do sometimes but don’t have a habit of doing.
1) Make brain stop hurting.
2) Seven different “semi-productive” things.
3) Sleep.
ngl, mine’s pretty much this, except for 1 i wanna do something fun and relaxing like nostalgic games or talking to friends or something but just can’t T_T
(“just let yourself be happy and relax. i feel like i wanna cry”)
When you take a “mental health day” or a “day off”, what do you:
A.) Take a shower
B.) Clean my room/my car.
C.) venting on Twitter
I love EVERY RESPONSE here. So relatable! I hear youse!
19 alarms
And the last frame looks like she’s still going…
(Jeez, Dorothy, Saturday is already supposed to be a mental health day…
I need Mr Willis to know that I read his piece on Polygon and subsequently spent 5 hours reading the entire Megatron thread om the transformers wiki. I knew nothing of transformers before, but I get it now. I get the obsession. Nearly cried at the end. I’m serious. I nearly cried from a wiki page. So uh, thanks for giving me a new hyperfixation. Good times.
>_> couldn’t be me and my alarms set to 7:30, 7:40, 8:00, 8:01, 8:02, 8:03, 8:04, 8:05, 8:06, 8:07, 8:08, 8:09, 8:10, 8:15, 8:30 and 10:00
Hey, I do that! Except mine are spread out across two phones in different spots in the room, an alarm clock, and a floor lamp plugged into a timer.
When you have to wake up at 1:30 in the morning for work, do you what you gotta do.
Wow! 8-| Impressive!
I bought a clock radio that had two separate alarms and put it across the room.
Heathcliff synchronicity today.
Is he setting a HAM alarm?
I had a girlfriend once that would set her alarm like a half hour before she had to get up and just hit snooze a dozen times. It drove me crazy…
But then I used to turn my alarm off and not get up, so I had to train myself to get up when the alarm went off the first time.
Anyway, we didn’t stay together long…
If someone has more than 2 or 3 alarms, you should be concerned
I kind of wonder why she doesn’t just forcibly turn off her phone, or turn off the sound on her phone instead. Sounds like a way, way easier way to accomplish this goal.
what if she misses an important text and someone dies tho
If they die, they die. What, is she gonna un-die them?
dang girl. please sleep. rest.
those are the kind of numbers of alarms i have when I get new foster kittens lol gotta be up every 2 hours to bottle feed and its just neverending (the ones I have now are at every 4 hours! hooray!)
Oh, sweetheart, no.
Ah. So this is our focus for the season then.