thoughts on daylight saving

[sqbr]

(Written on Eowyn, on the train. I was in a very odd mood)

I wake up in a world unstuck from time. I look at every clock and ask: is this the real time? But which time is real? There is the time of yesterday , the system by which my life has ticked for 27 years. There is the new time, the one running the world now. And there is the time in my head, which lies somewhere in between. It is strange on the train. The multirider machine jolts me back, as it stamps my card with yesterday time. We sit together silently in a world gone if not mad then mildly eccentric. The light is wrong, pale & thin, the streets empty (it is a sunday but since I am working altdays seem the same to me). The regular clockwork of the trains careens further into randomness. When we reach McIver we shuffle off in a hopeful stream of jetlagged humanity, directed across paths & tracks I haue passed a thousand times before but never walked until today. Emerging from the shuttle we enter an empty station, our "connecting" trains all gone, the signs all claiming "this platform is not in use".

Comments

[hipikat.livejournal.com]

the time of yesterday , the system by which my life has ticked for 27 years

Am I the only one who remembers having daylight savings as a child, and has been patiently waiting for it to be reintroduced every year since?

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

you and Stephen Deadman, I think.

[pedanther]

I remember having daylight savings as a child, but it's been a matter of indifference to me whether it would be reintroduced.

[alias_sqbr]

We had daylight savings? I totally don't remember this. That's disturbing.

[edible-hat.livejournal.com]

Those of us in other states where it happens every year can't see what the fuss is about.

[alias_sqbr]

I must say I do wonder if the extreme naysayers predicting The End Of Civilisation have considered that it can't be that bad or you guys wouldn't have stuck with it. I wasn't saying it was bad just surreal, a statement I stand by :P

[edible-hat.livejournal.com]

yeah, but like I said, elswhere it happens every year and people don't even stop to think about it.

[alias_sqbr]

You've had a while to get used to it. Also, I am very easily unstuck from reality :)