The Days are Long
May. 23rd, 2024 03:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerThe days are long. That's a fact that's been catching me by surprise, in little ways, pretty much every day this month.
One form of surprise is how the evening hours sneak up on me. More than once recently it's been after 7pm before I've even thought about having dinner. I've gotten involved in doing something, and the background process in my brain that reminds me of things like "dinnertime" by noticing the setting sun is off kilter. Or the sun is off kilter. Sunset isn't until 8:17pm today. And it'll get later for another month or so.
On the flip side, sun early in the morning interferes with my sleeping. At least every second or third day I wake up around 5am when the sky starts to get light. Sunrise isn't until just before 6am, but the sky starts brightening ahead of that. Sometimes the light in the sky jolts my circadian rhythms enough that I can't get back to sleep after waking up at 5 or 5:30am even though I'm desperately tired.
One form of surprise is how the evening hours sneak up on me. More than once recently it's been after 7pm before I've even thought about having dinner. I've gotten involved in doing something, and the background process in my brain that reminds me of things like "dinnertime" by noticing the setting sun is off kilter. Or the sun is off kilter. Sunset isn't until 8:17pm today. And it'll get later for another month or so.
On the flip side, sun early in the morning interferes with my sleeping. At least every second or third day I wake up around 5am when the sky starts to get light. Sunrise isn't until just before 6am, but the sky starts brightening ahead of that. Sometimes the light in the sky jolts my circadian rhythms enough that I can't get back to sleep after waking up at 5 or 5:30am even though I'm desperately tired.
