Aleksandra the Great’s Exploits

The transition from daylight saving time to standard time is pleasant because for weeks after (if you, like me, are too lazy to reset your clock and would not dream of waking up in the middle of the night to set it at the correct hour) you can look at the clock and know that you actually have one more hour before bed than the clock says you have. It just gives you the sense that there is somehow more time available in the fall than there was in the late summer.

Daylight saving time, on the other hand, forces you to adjust the clocks almost immediately, or else suffer every time you mistakenly believe there are six hours left before bed when really there are only five. Besides for rushing me in resetting the clocks, daylight saving time confuses my daily cycle. I keep glancing at my computer clock and thinking that it is an hour ahead—surely it can’t be this bright outside at 5:30 when it’s supposed to be dark by 6! In the summer it’s acceptable for the sun to set after 8, but during the spring, when I should spend evenings doing school work and getting to bed, the extended daylight only makes me procrastinate, wishing I had time to be outside enjoying it.

I am aware that it saves energy as well as daylight, and that as an environmentalist I should be thrilled that we don’t have to use electric lighting as much now as we did a week ago. It just happens to be a very unpleasant initial change. And, since I haven’t been feeling well the past two or three days, I blame daylight saving time for messing up my health.

In other news, I have submitted all of my college applications. Hopefully there will be more than a post or two before the one revealing the admissions decisions (provided the response is agreeable).

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