It's That Time Again

So, we've reached the end of Daylight Savings Time. That means last night you turned your clocks back an hour before you went to bed and earned yourself an extra hour of sleep. Now, despite the obvious drawback of the sun going down at 3 in the afternoon, I think this is clearly the better time-shift. Not just for the extra sleep, but because when you roll the clocks back there is not nearly as much complaining about how tired or thrown off everyone is by the hour of sleep that they lose when the clocks spring forward. However, this day does also lead to a lot more people lying to themselves.

If you're anything like me, every time daylight savings ends, you wake up at roughly the same time the next morning on your internal clock. After all, your internal clock is fine, it's the outside clock that changed. But you forget about that and focus on how nice it is to wake up feeling refreshed and with an extra hour of the day ahead of you. So you make a vow right then and there to start going to bed earlier and waking up early every weekend. You'll get so much more done and be so much more productive, you tell yourself. Yeah, well, this lasts for about two days. Then some horrible movie on Showtime gets you in its grips, you stay up way too late, press the snooze button a couple extra times and you're back to your old ways. I'm very familiar with this, as I do it every year about this time. But, at least that first morning feels really good.