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5 a.m. - my alarm goes off; I wander to my phone placed 5 feet away from my bed; I stop the alarm; I also stop all emergency alarms I manually set at 15-minute intervals until 6 a.m., as if iPhone technology weren’t advanced enough to take care of the following alarms if the first one was missed. Next stop: bathroom – on the way, I turn on the coffee machine. I pee. Then - coffee ritual - weighing beans, grinding beans, tamping ground beans, inserting tamped and ground beans