the time change

 This one was rough. Losing an hour jetlags me more than gaining an hour does. I UNDERSTAND why we do it, but I feel like we do it too early in the year (and go back to standard time too late). It's not going to be fun driving in a few minutes after 7 am tomorrow; it will still be dark here (on M, W, F, I go in around 8 and it was just getting light; tomorrow I go in shortly after 7 - I have an 8 am class - and I have to remember to go turn on the muffle furnace first). I've already warned my chair if they go to "year round DST" I will no longer teach 8 am classes (I could see either my state deciding that, as the outgoing governor has a wild hair to issue a lot of weird (derogatory) executive orders, or get it Federally (It was done in 1974, during a PRIOR oil crisis, apparently on the grounds that it somehow saved electricity or heating or something? All it did was make it darker in the morning - I JUST remember it, for part of 1974 I was in kindergarten, morning kindergarten).  It's actually a little dangerous to drive in the dusk here; some people don't turn on their headlights (!) because I guess they think it saves on gas; other people have those brighter-than-the-sun aftermarket LED lights that blind oncoming drivers. 

I live near the western edge of my time zone, so it stays darker earlier and lighter later during the first few and last few weeks of DST, and as I said, it's not great for driving in

There were also a couple years where I taught an 8 am class and a 5 pm class and if I didn't take time between them and go home for lunch or something, I'd have days when I never saw the sun at all, and I didn't like that. 

I also do feel tired from losing the hour and not sleeping great last night (it was very humid; I struggled to work out this morning and it was only when I checked the dewpoint midday (at that point, 66 F) that I stopped worrying something new was wrong with my lungs. 

I broke down this afternoon and turned the AC on - yes, it's way too early, but I need to breathe and it was very uncomfortable in my house. And I need to sleep tonight. 

I will say, even with all the time change mess, it is nice coming home from an early evening meeting and not having to drive home in the dark; I came home from CWF to this at about 7:40 tonight 

 SO that's pretty nice. 

The timer I have the fairy lights set on comes on later (doesn't matter most days; I'm still at work) and stays on later at night. I also have a little battery operated set on a timer around my shelves, which I changed out and moved my Dr Opal Lee doll to the shelf with the other Barbies and put up a couple of my Schleich unicorns: