«It's like pushing cement,» said Patrick O'Brien who
worked past midnight plowing wet, heavy snow from driveways and parking lots in East Aurora.
She worked past midnight, so she had me stay at another family's house until she closed shop.
Because of the long days at the poles in the summer, it's easy to forget what time it is and
work past midnight.
Before getting hired for this new job
working past midnight, I would write almost exclusively at night.
I'm sure managers would simply ask for volunteers since it's not practical to just schedule someone to
work past midnight, particularly with the level of employees that they would hire (students or younger people) 4.
Not everyone has problems
working past midnight.
Not exact matches
But after an 18 - day run eating Goldfish crackers for dinner and
working on the business way
past midnight, I realized when you're the only employee at your company, you become obsessed with everything.
(And while we may be tempted to equate shift
work with the service industry, any journalist, designer, developer, or artist who
works well into the night on deadline can relate — hey, it's well
past midnight again as I'm writing this.)
You never once smacked one of those kids, the ones there on full scholarship with visions of patched sport coasts in the Ivory Tower, you never once icily mentioned that you were
working full time, going into debt, commuting two hours to school, that you had three small babies at home, that you
worked in a fast - paced and exhausting industry under tremendous pressure just to come home, kiss your kids for a brief moment, launching into that thesis until well
past midnight, just to get up at 6 the next morning and do it all over again, relentlessly.
Past midnight on Election Night, Majestic had 1,002 votes on the Republican and Conservative Party lines; challenger Lisa Lindsley was breathing down her neck with 981 votes on the Democratic,
Working Families and Women's Equality Party lines; and 124 absentee ballots plus an undetermined number of affidavits still remained to be counted.
They
worked long hours, from early in the morning to sometimes well
past midnight.
If an electronic device is keeping you awake
past midnight, but you still have to wake at 5 to get the kids off to school and to get to
work on time, you will be in a state of chronic sleep deprivation.
I do not think it helped that we did not get home from our trip a little
past midnight last night, but
work does not stop for sleep.
There's the more recent trend towards to the romantic («
Midnight In Paris») and globe - trotting («Vicky Cristina Barcelona»), familiar existential comedic worries («Whatever
Works»), and even moral - dilemma - led thrillers («Match Point,» «Cassandra's Dream «-RRB- but a recent theme emerging of late is an introspective examination at the
past and regret also evinced in «To Rome with Love.»
Over the
past few weeks, the staff here at
Midnight Publishing has been discussing some of the most frequent «writing mistakes» we've come across in our clients»
work (and sometimes our own writing!).
We also realized how difficult it is to have performance
works that remain active for six hours, particularly when these go
past midnight.
Queens Museum: «After
Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India, 1947/1997» (closes on Sunday) This exhibition of South Asian - born artists is really two shows, a focused one of modernist painting from roughly the time of Independence in 1947 through the 1970s, and a larger, somewhat haphazard selection of multimedia
work from the
past few years.
Having
worked with the other agent till
past midnight.