I hate Daylight Savings Time.

I consider it a plot, hatched by the night-owls against those of us who are morning people, as some kind of misguided revenge for what they imagine are our beliefs of our own moral superiority. Look, just because Ben Franklin said that "healthy, wealthy, and wise" thing doesn't mean we're ALL dissing you, so lay off.

It's really depressing to drive to work in the dark after having driven in in sunlight for weeks. It's even worse to get up a bit before 5 am to work out and have it be the dead dark of the middle-of-the-night, rather than the slight pre-dawn lightness that had been.

And really, when you think about it, it doesn't save energy. Because when you're bumbling around at 5 am, you're going to have to turn on the lights to avoid bashing your leg on the corner of the dresser. The lights we are avoiding turning on in the evening, we are turning on in the morning.

The only way to work it so as to save energy would be to, in addition, make everyone's workday start an hour later and be an hour shorter. Make this six months National Sleep-an-Extra-Hour Months. It could be a grand experiment - cut everyone's workday by an hour, encourage people to sleep that extra hour, and see what effect it has on car crashes, and grumpiness, and productivity at work, and even obesity (they say that sleep deprivation makes you fat. No, really. I read it somewhere).

I promise that if they gave me an extra hour each day, I'd use at least part of it to sleep. With Daylight Savings as it is, it's even harder for me to get sleep because it's so danged light at night. Which is just another reason to hate Daylight Savings. It is not SUPPOSED to be light out at 9 pm.

I ESPECIALLY hate when Daylight Savings Time coincides with my cycle-related insomnia.

The only good news is that I teach one class today, and have no meetings tonight. So I can go home and try to get to sleep early, if it's not too light.