Hey Herdlers, Emily Abadi here bringing you another installment of Five Minute Friday.

For those new to the show on Fridays, I tell a story.

I offer you a thought prompt to take you into the weekend.

Then I share my highlights of the week, my content picks, the stuff that I'm listening to

and reading and watching and so on. And then last but not least, I finish us off with a listener

question. So yesterday, I woke up in a Boston hotel room. Now I had some work in Boston.

So I drove up there, I went to the car by myself and that just felt like the smartest,

easiest quote unquote, safest way to go about it. So I wake up in Boston to an alarm.

And I am like completely disoriented when I wake up. Firstly, because as someone who used to travel

a ton to wake up somewhere that's not my bed felt super odd, but also because I mentioned

I woke up to an alarm. I have not been setting an alarm for the entire coronavirus pandemic.

I would say this is certainly a silver lining. And even without the alarm, I mean,

some days I'm awake at 5.30 and other days I'm wake closer to 7. I just kind of trust my body

that I'm going to get up whenever feels right for the amount of sleep that I actually need.

So when the alarm went off, I laid there for a minute and I asked myself, like, will I be

better for today if I just get another 30 minutes of sleep? This is definitely something that

was on my radar. I as a result, instinctively just asked Siri plightly to set an alarm for 6.30

and close my eyes. And I would say about another 60 seconds went by before I sat up and like took

this like super deep breath and just put my feet on the floor, walked to the bathroom,

splashed some water on my face and I was like, well, yeah, we're going to get up. Now admittedly,

I've always been pretty good at mornings, like even back in college after what we used to call

nickel night, like way too many drinks that cost five cents and going to bed decently

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