One of them, lately, is that during the "long-day" part of the year (and we just had the longest-daylight-day yesterday), if I want to go to bed at all "early," it's so bright out I have to pull out the black eyeshade I use when I travel.
It makes me think of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Bed in Summer":
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.
And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?
But, unlike Stevenson's eager-to-play child who feels cheated by the sun still being up when he is sent to bed, as a tired adult, I feel that it's somehow not right that I should WANT to go to bed at 8:30 some night, and have it be too bright to sleep.
I feel like I shouldn't have to put up blackout curtains in my bedroom (do they still even make those?) just to be able to catch up a bit on my sleep in summer.
Summer teaching is kind of exhausting, so some nights going to bed at 8:30 does look attractive.
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DST needs to GO AWAY, in my opinion. The original reason for it is no longer an issue. Plus, it just takes me so long to adjust every time... I do so much better if my bedtime is fairly regular. Geez, I sound like a geezer or something. LOL
I too hate DST.
Blackout curatins are on sale at JCPenny's website right now. It was a discussion in our knitting group on monday.
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