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cblj_backupHEY AMERICANS
IT'S CLOCK SETTIN' TIME!
Remember to set back any analog clocks and sync up any digital ones tonight, unless you really feel like getting up and performing that mystical task at two in the morning when we officially set the clocks back an hour. I have three clocks that actually need setting: the oven clock (very important, as it's the one I consult in the mornings to determine whether I have time for an egg), the bedroom clock, which was a wedding gift to my parents and is the clock I learned to tell time on, and the cheap one in the living room that I never look at because I keep forgetting its existence. This is a lot of time for a guy who basically stops looking at clocks after 4:30pm on weekdays and never consults them on weekends.
As a child I found this whole process baffling, that the human race could just decide to change time twice a year. I also believed that days really lasted longer in the summer, not the daylight itself as we all mean but that hours took a longer time to pass in summer. Clearly I was made for time travel.
Unrelatedly, I had a theory as a very young child that a long silence was an acceptable substitute for "no", which led to interesting misunderstandings with my parents. Come to think of it, most of the misunderstandings I had with my parents came back to an incorrect interpretation of reality on my part.
Frankly, my interpretation of reality is much more interesting. In my reality there are dragons. Beat that.
IT'S CLOCK SETTIN' TIME!
Remember to set back any analog clocks and sync up any digital ones tonight, unless you really feel like getting up and performing that mystical task at two in the morning when we officially set the clocks back an hour. I have three clocks that actually need setting: the oven clock (very important, as it's the one I consult in the mornings to determine whether I have time for an egg), the bedroom clock, which was a wedding gift to my parents and is the clock I learned to tell time on, and the cheap one in the living room that I never look at because I keep forgetting its existence. This is a lot of time for a guy who basically stops looking at clocks after 4:30pm on weekdays and never consults them on weekends.
As a child I found this whole process baffling, that the human race could just decide to change time twice a year. I also believed that days really lasted longer in the summer, not the daylight itself as we all mean but that hours took a longer time to pass in summer. Clearly I was made for time travel.
Unrelatedly, I had a theory as a very young child that a long silence was an acceptable substitute for "no", which led to interesting misunderstandings with my parents. Come to think of it, most of the misunderstandings I had with my parents came back to an incorrect interpretation of reality on my part.
Frankly, my interpretation of reality is much more interesting. In my reality there are dragons. Beat that.
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Date: 2010-11-07 07:27 am (UTC)(BTW, got my copy of Charitable Getting yesterday afternoon; MAN, that arrived quick! **beams**)
Dragons... my reality as a child included talking to trees, bushes, and the grass; I remember apologizing to the grass when my dad was about to cut it. The grass didn't seem to mind all that much, but it made me feel bad. Some of the pines in my backyard had tempers,too-- real bastards, actually, and so was one of the blueberry bushes.
Has this changed a lot as I grew older? ...not so much, really. ^_^