Round 130, Hour 33

[glinda]

Good morning rushers! How has the void been for you all? Due to the clocks changing I’m awake far earlier than I’d like, so I’m hoping to get some words in! Any one else unwillingly active or are the rest of you in similar time zones all discombobulated or just plain confused by the time change?

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[alexseanchai]

nobody expects me to be anywhere at any particular clock time (I have taken action to ensure this) and therefore the clock change never bothers me anymore

I don't think it had for years before that, either, now I think of it, as the delightful thing about working four to midnight is zero people to give a crap about when between one and five in the morning one goes to bed, nor about when one wakes up as long as it's enough in advance of four in the afternoon, and the other delightful thing about working four to midnight (at least for that employer) is five percent extra pay for the horrid inconvenience of working Not Day Shift

(I had grand plans, when moving three time zones west, of sleeping at the same clock times I was doing according to the time zone I left. as you can tell from how it's one-thirty in the morning in the time zone I'm in, four-thirty in the one I left, this did not, uh, work.)

my brain wandered off a while ago and my cat is giving me stink eye for typing and she will probably escalate to chewing on my wrist soon, which isn't terribly bothersome as she has no teeth but is still an annoyance

[glinda]

See I live far enough north that the hour of difference makes a noticeable difference to the progress of the day. It’s only really a bother to me when it falls on days when I’m on shift when it discombobulates all my internal calculations. Though generally if I’m actually awake to see it happen I just feel like a time traveller and quite enjoy it.

(As someone who is terrible at doing the 9to5 thing, I am amused that I also get paid extra to work hours that are easier for me to keep. Though mine usually involve starting at 2 in the afternoon, or half 6 in the morning so don’t actually feel remotely arduous, unless I have to do alternate days instead of weeks.)