"I'll leave when the clocks change"

[annwfyn]

You know, every year I forget how very very painful daylight savings time is. And every year I have a horrible shock to the system when that vile and unpleasant weekend rolls around again.

It's currently 9.13 am by my computer's clock. My body is screaming at me that it's 8.13 am, and that I've been awake since 7.30 am. My body is also decidedly unimpressed by this.

For those who are interested, my weekend was a pleasant mishmash of people, pub and pretendy fun games. The only moment of alarm was when I arrived home at 11 pm last night to find the front door hanging open.

My first, and very panicked thought, was that we'd been burgled. A quick scan of the living room negated that - the TV, computer, and assorted other things were still there. I guess someone just failed to shut the door properly on the way out of the house. My next worry was whether we still had two cats. We had one - Myrddin - who was wandering around looking entirely unconcerned.

(of course it was Madoc who went missing! How could it possibly have been anyone else?)

Thankfully, I reclaimed Madoc within about five minutes. He was found two doors up, huddles in the doorway of an empty house, mewling somewhat pathetically. I presume he wandered outside and got scared and/or lost, and so just found shelter and hid.

In other news, this is the final week of my term time. I've got an essay deadline today, the head of course is looking at my studio portfolio tomorrow, and I've got a tutorial at some point this week.

I'm actually rather nervous.

Comments

[commlal.livejournal.com]

My problem was more yesterday evening when it was 11.30pm and my brain was adimant that it was only 10.30pm and I could stay up a bit longer.

Oh, we had the front door thing once. This was when our cats were house cats. They didnt leave the flat, too scared!

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

Bloody British bloody summertime.

This morning, I woke up at 5.30am from a hideous nightmare involving dead guinea pigs. I was just settling back to sleep when I had an all-systems-panic of did-I-remember-to-pick-up-my-laptop-from-the-College-Arms and staggered out into the freezing mist to check it was in my car where I thought it ought to be.

It was, of course.

Then I was just getting back to sleep - again - when I had a did-I-remember-to-change-the-time-on-my-mobile-phone panic (since my mobile acts as my alarm clock) and staggered downstairs to check the time against my computer clock, which I knew had changed.

Then I finally dropped into a deep and restful sleep, approximately two minutes before the alarm went off.

I really could'a done with that extra hour.

[elethiomel.livejournal.com]

It's currently 9.13 am by my computer's clock. My body is screaming at me that it's 8.13 am, and that I've been awake since 7.30 am. My body is also decidedly unimpressed by this.

You know, the body adapts to circadian disrythmia relatively well - you should easily get over a one hour time difference in a day. Are you sure you're not coming down with flu or something?

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

My body doesn't terribly well.

My body seems to tend to stick to a certain sleeping pattern pretty rigidly. On the plus side, I am one of those people who never needs an alarm clock (unless I'm getting up at 4 am for a plane or something). On the downside, I'm awful at staying up late, I fall asleep in nightclubs, and I find British Summer Time, or getting up an hour earlier than usual for any reason, actively painful until my body readjusts.

I'm reasonably certain I'm not ill. I always feel nauseous if I try and get up earlier than I'm used to.

Give me a week and I'll be fine and won't be able to sleep that extra hour anymore.

[lilitufire.livejournal.com]

You could always try melatonin or one of those herbal anti jet lag thingies? I don't bother, but I don't get that bad jet lag (too much practice :) )

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

Ahahahahahahahahahahaha.

That's what they say, but it's a foul canard.

I am one of nature's late sleepers. My body just about manages to adjust to getting up at 7.30 in the mornings. It does not like the sudden shock of having to get up an hour earlier. It will adjust, in a few days, but believe me they will not be pleasant days...

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[lapinenoireuk.livejournal.com]

hate British Summer Time - need my chuffing kip I do {spit} but, seriously, am glad to hear that things worked out (No burglars / Lost Cats) - on another issue I found a 3.5 disc when we were cleaning up at the College last night - DT thought it might be yours ???

If so ... do you want it back ?? if so how ?

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[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Argh! Yes. I think you're right. Erm...will you be around for the first weekend games at all?

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[lapinenoireuk.livejournal.com]

Sure - I'll bring it down to the College tomorrow.

Sorry about the delay in replying .... been manic ... utterly fruitloop {mutters under breath}

time difference

[mangochutney04.livejournal.com]

My Mum also suffers with one hour time changes and whenever we have been over to the continent has spent the whole week saying 'well of course I'm tired because my body really feels like it is is 6.30am!'.

I never quite felt like that myself but I have to say that yesterday I felt robbed. Really robbed. It felt like we had to go to bed all too early. If only we had got up before 11.30am (12.30pm) though it might have felt like we'd had more of a weekend. Damn my sleepy puppy syndrome!

P,S

[mangochutney04.livejournal.com]

Singapore doesn't have daylight savings which is great because you don't get a rotten time change weekend but bad because it gets dark at 7pm every evening all year round, so you never get any lovely long light summer evenings. I guess I prefer the long evenings on balance.