Tag: daylight savings time

  • extra hour

    Woke up early, tossed and turned, heard the clock strike four, gave in to the reality that I wasn’t going back to sleep. While I was getting dressed, noticed my phone said the time was a little after five o’clock, which made me feel a little better. I don’t know why I feel bad about Read.

  • reset to zero

    I slept until five o’clock yesterday morning and believed I had successfully readjusted after we moved the clocks back. I was wrong. Read.

  • lagged

    Wide awake at three this morning, dozed on and off until I gave up & rolled out of bed at four. It’s not insomnia, it’s my internal clock failing to adjust to the tick-tock clocks falling back. It used to be I was wide awake at four, dozed until five. It’ll take my internal clock Read.

  • half past the monkey’s

    My daylight savings time story: I woke up yesterday morning while it was still dark and just a minute or two before the clock in the front room went bong – half-past the hour, but which hour? Thanks to insomnia, I was still awake a half-hour later when I heard the clock strike four. And Read.

  • bleary-eyed

    I have been wide-awake since four o’clock, which was my usual five o’clock wake-up time until last weekend. This is my obligatory “I hate daylight savings time” post. Thank you. Come back later for more. I’ll be bleary-eyed all week. Read.

  • Late For Work

    Here’s the headache of daylight savings from my perspective: I was stationed in Berlin, Germany, for two years, and at an RAF base in the middle of a field near Lincoln, England, for another two years, and you wouldn’t think of either of those places as being in the great white north, or even any Read.

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