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5 Ways to Feel Normal When You Start Work at Midnight

By NPR Morning Edition host, Renee Montagne

Renee Montagne lives and works in Los Angeles even though most of her Morning Edition colleagues work in Washington DC. The show starts early anyway, but when it’s on East Coast time, it’s so early in the morning that it’s late night. Here’s how she tries to live a normal life even though she starts work at midnight.

I live in a 1920’s courtyard here in Santa Monica, with five cottages encircling a communal garden. Over the years, our cottages have been home to actors, directors, screenwriters, and cinematographers, who know well what it means to work long hours, overnight.
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