Clocks Back Tonight
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Lorns
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That would be because.
1- I have trouble getting out of bed ( i love my bed)
2- I leave the house in the morning, get to the car and realise i've forgotten things to take to work. I've forgotten salon keys loads of times and had to go back home.
3- Not 1 clock tells the right time, the only exact clock in my house is on sky, i rely on Sky news in the morning to make sure i leave the house on time for work.
4- In a nutshell, i suppose i'm just disorganised.
However.. If i have an important appointment i am always ridiculously early. General day to day stuff i'm always late for. My mates always say tell me we're meeting about an hour earlier than the real scheduled time. That way they're not hanging about for me. They laugh about it and say they don't mind as it's who i am. I feel bad about it i just can't help it.
I also have a touch of OCD when i leave the house, i have to check things about dozen times before i know the house is safe and secure. That can waste t least 20mins.
1- I have trouble getting out of bed ( i love my bed)
2- I leave the house in the morning, get to the car and realise i've forgotten things to take to work. I've forgotten salon keys loads of times and had to go back home.
3- Not 1 clock tells the right time, the only exact clock in my house is on sky, i rely on Sky news in the morning to make sure i leave the house on time for work.
4- In a nutshell, i suppose i'm just disorganised.
However.. If i have an important appointment i am always ridiculously early. General day to day stuff i'm always late for. My mates always say tell me we're meeting about an hour earlier than the real scheduled time. That way they're not hanging about for me. They laugh about it and say they don't mind as it's who i am. I feel bad about it i just can't help it.
I also have a touch of OCD when i leave the house, i have to check things about dozen times before i know the house is safe and secure. That can waste t least 20mins.
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Lorns
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Hehehe!! I've just counted the clocks in my house. Bearing in mind have 3 in the bedroom. I thought i only had 2 but i found one lurking in a corner. I guess i got pissed off with it slung it acroos the room and forgot about it. I have 10 clocks 
All bar 2 were gifts ( beginning to think the rest were very subtle hints). Not 1 tells the right time. The kitchen clock is correct according to Sky. In a 2 bed terrace in the south of England there is about 3 different timezones.
2 clocks have stopped alltogether. I don't wear a watch either although i have several of them.
All bar 2 were gifts ( beginning to think the rest were very subtle hints). Not 1 tells the right time. The kitchen clock is correct according to Sky. In a 2 bed terrace in the south of England there is about 3 different timezones. 2 clocks have stopped alltogether. I don't wear a watch either although i have several of them.
Mental anxiety, Mental breakdowns, Menstrual cramps, Menopause... Did you ever notice how all our problems begin with Men?
A year on, and I still stand by my comments from last year. Finally being in the 'real' world of working a 9-5 job (well semi real world anyway; I spent the last few years training to be a primary school teacher, yet find myself selling brown goods at ETS, oh well it's a step up from Domino's), I'm finding it just plain wrong that anyone working a day job should leave work in darkness.
Now being into early rising, last week I was leaving the house at 7:30 as light was breaking in, and getting home just as it was starting to get darker, still giving me almost an hour of 'useable' light once home. Today, I leave the house in perfect light (at a time of the morning when quite frankly I prefer it dark), and then it's pitch black by the time I get home - and the evenings haven't quite finished drawing in yet.
This means that I only get to be out and about in daylight for two days a week - a situation which will now last for months. This could well be a signficant contributor to cases of SAD - it's not people generally being depressed about lack of daylight hours, it's more that they don't get much time to enjoy those that remain. Staying on BST all year round meaning that those working a 9-5 job at least get to leave work in daylight all year round could well have a positive impact on these cases.
The 'farmers milking their cows in daylight' argument just doesn't cut it anymore, nor is there any significant historical precedent for doing things the way we do - unlike most aspects of our calendar, moving the clocks back and forth is not an ancient tradition dating back hundreds of years, it's something we've been doing for less than a century, and the present system of going back in october and forward in april has only existed since the 1970's.
BST rules!
Now being into early rising, last week I was leaving the house at 7:30 as light was breaking in, and getting home just as it was starting to get darker, still giving me almost an hour of 'useable' light once home. Today, I leave the house in perfect light (at a time of the morning when quite frankly I prefer it dark), and then it's pitch black by the time I get home - and the evenings haven't quite finished drawing in yet.
This means that I only get to be out and about in daylight for two days a week - a situation which will now last for months. This could well be a signficant contributor to cases of SAD - it's not people generally being depressed about lack of daylight hours, it's more that they don't get much time to enjoy those that remain. Staying on BST all year round meaning that those working a 9-5 job at least get to leave work in daylight all year round could well have a positive impact on these cases.
The 'farmers milking their cows in daylight' argument just doesn't cut it anymore, nor is there any significant historical precedent for doing things the way we do - unlike most aspects of our calendar, moving the clocks back and forth is not an ancient tradition dating back hundreds of years, it's something we've been doing for less than a century, and the present system of going back in october and forward in april has only existed since the 1970's.
BST rules!