There's a non-uncommon phenomenon in which people stay up very late at night in order to reclaim some of the free time they don't have during the day because they have to work. I don't do this because I've reached a point in my life where physical fatigue overtakes me relatively early in the evening and when I'm done, I'm just done. But I do find myself waking up really early and doing more or less the same thing. Lying in the bed at 3:00 AM telling myself to go back to sleep has never worked, so instead I get up and start my day. Sometimes I wind back down and manage to get another hour of sleep before my alarm goes off, and sometimes I'm just up for the day. But the reclamation of personal time- I get it.

I like quiet places on the Internet. Places where you can look at one thing at a time, with no advertising. Everything is so full, and it doesn't have to be.