# i have been getting up and atom this entire time

- Link: https://tacobout.online/2026/10/21/getting-up-and-atom/
- Published: 2026-10-21T13:00:00-05:00
- Author: schwegler

Illustrative photograph: [Szűcs László, “Alarm clock on a chair”](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alarm_clock_on_a_chair_(Unsplash).jpg)·
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apparently it’s “up and at ’em,” not “up and atom.” i have been operating under 
a nuclear interpretation of mornings for years.

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in my defense, “up and atom” sounds like something people would say. get up. become
energy. do a little science about it. what part of that is less reasonable than 
getting out of bed to confront an unspecified them?

finding out you’ve misheard a phrase is such a rude little software update. everybody
else installed the correct version years ago and you’re standing there with a perfectly
functional alternate language.

**i’ll be retaining atom.** mornings need all the help they can get.