Monday, November 04, 2013
Seemed like a good idea
I've got my life nicely arranged at this late stage: sleeping, dumping, diet, exercise, mood, art "work" and real work all fitting together into a virtuous circle. When the idiot DST change comes along, it throws off my nice narrow little life. At the last two seasonal switchovers my sleep pattern somehow switched the wrong way and took a few weeks to realign.
This time I decided to simply ignore the change. Only one piece of my life needs to sync up with the outer world's clocks: bus trips to Safeway. The rest is strictly independent. So I left all my clocks on Old Time and allowed the computer's screen clock to switch into New Time for bus reference.
But I forgot about non-clock cues. Though I don't plan my life around certain radio programs, I found that the radio and the comings and goings of the nearby school had become unconscious signals. Hunger and sleep patterns had been phase-locked to those audio inputs, and they pulled against my attempted stable oscillator.
Now I've switched the wrong damn way yet again!
Labels: TMI
¶ 6:06 PM
