When I think of my mother I think of a childhood summer spent waking to the smell of solder and the sound of Abba drifting up from a tinny transistor radio in the kitchen, in an unremarkable council house where I learned to read from the books she gave me.
As you get older, the more integrated your life is, the healthier it feels and the less time you have to spend waking up deciding who you're going to be that day.
Sleep and wake stages were visually scored in consecutive epochs of 30 s, resulting in a list of epochs spent in wake, stages I (drowsiness), II, III, and rapid eye movement (REM) dream sleep.
Since rodents are nocturnal animals, control mice showed the expected diurnal variation with significantly longer time spent in wake states during the dark cycle phase.
The total time spent in wake, NREM and REM sleep was calculated and was expressed as the total mean percent, every three hourly mean percent, and hourly mean percent out of the total recording time.
"We spent every waking second together that we could," Mr. van Hout said.
We've studied hard and spent every waking hour poring through the available texts.
Like Grimes, Pearson initially spent every waking hour learning how to build, manage and market his online businesses.
During the debate on Sunday, Mr. Lonegan suggested that Mr. Booker spent every waking hour on Twitter, where the mayor has 1.4 million followers and unabashedly exchanges messages with strangers day and night.
If she had her way, she would probably have spent every waking hour singing and dancing on whatever stage was at hand with, if not the confidence of a pro, at least an awfully good facsimile of it.
