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I think I may have mentioned—once or twice—how (not) fond I am of the notion of Daylight Savings Time. Let me assure you that my opinion of the whole clock-changing business is not altered. However, at present I choose not to whine about that because I have something better to whine about: we’re all sick.
Saturday morning we had a gathering of grandparents/aunts and uncles/cousins etc. to celebrate Audrey turning three. It was lovely and delightful and all those things a family gathering ought to be. It was also followed by complete meltdownedness of our immune systems. (A sure sign of a good party, no?) (And yes, meltdownedness is totally a word. I may have just invented it, but that doesn’t make it any less of a word. Or maybe that does make it less of a word. Give me a break, I’m sick.)
By Saturday night we had general malaise and fever; by Sunday morning—well, let’s just say there may have been a fair amount of owing-thray up-ay, if you know what I mean, and now we’re back to fevers and malaise plus coughing all the night long for good measure.
And that’s about all I can say about that, as the words on screen are swimming back and forth before my eyes. I’m going to try to sleep, which will be difficult given that one or more small children will find it necessary to rest their head on my shoulder/arm/elbow in order to stay asleep. Awesome.
To recap: Take your vitamin C. The end.
I’d love to hear your rant on DST sometime, or maybe I’ll write my own. I think the whole thing sucks and I drive my family crazy refusing to change the clocks. (That’ll show them!)
Speaking of family, mine is upstairs hacking up their collective lungs. I’m off to work before the contagion fells me too.
Hang in there, feel better soon.
It is still dark when we leave the house in the morning, and the sun barely gets over the horizon when it’s time for school to start. I’m TOTALLY with you on this one!
Feel better soon! And zinc, you need zinc!
Lynne– work: a clever escape from germs! I pretty much rant about DST every time we change the clocks– here and here, for example.
Cindy– ZINC! I had not thought of that yet. You’re absolutely right. I bet I even have zinc lozenges in the cupboard.
I heard on the radio yesterday that you never actually recover from daylight savings. Your body is still trying to adjust through the fall. Whoo-hoo!
Why, why do we do this to ourselves? I know, saving electricity or money or both or something. Did the radio program say how much we actually save? I’d be curious to know.
My colleague suggested that we do DST over two days – 30 minutes each day. Lo, she is brilliant.
Smart cookie, that one. But would she put the two days near each other, or like a week apart? Hmm. Now I’m strategizing a hypothetical change to the time change.