in which I discover latitude

[ursula]

When one is reading an article in the New York Times on seasonal affective disorder, and playing the matching game one plays with horoscopes ("Ten hours of sleep a night? Fondness for carbohydrates? Overuse of the verb 'to hibernate'? Why yes, that DOES sound like me!"), and pauses to think that one would not be terribly harmed by shifting one's alarm earlier to coincide with winter sunrise, and might even derive salutary effects, it is rather depressing to realize that this would constitute an official shift of approximately fifteen minutes.

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[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

10 hours of sleep a night? Heck, that happens year round...

I think shifting my morning wake-up time to coincide with "sunrise" here would quite probably make things more depressing. At least, if it's already overcast and grey when I wake up, I can comfort myself with "but I slept late, maybe the sun shone earlier." But if I wake up when it's still dark, then I'm guaranteed to know when the sun never comes out all day long...

[ursula]

Mmm, well, this is Seattle. I'm not going to fret about whether it's overcast ;)