Changing Times

At midnight between last Saturday and Sunday the clocks went forward (well actually, we put them forward, but being otherwise occupied by old uni mates in the college bar at around that time mine didn't get done until sometime on Sunday afternoon, but anyway!) Having had four years pass since the last time I experienced it, I have realised just how weird a phenomenon it is...

• The mornings, which after a struggle to escape from winter had eventually been getting lighter, are dark again, which is weird.
• The evenings, which had been getting lighter (only a couple of weeks ago it suddenly dawned on me that I was leaving work in the light) are now EVEN lighter, so that when I come out of work it feels like the middle of the afternoon. I can now even get home well before it gets dark. Odd.
• The time-difference with Japan is now 8 hours instead of 9 - which to be honest is far easier to calculate (in that basically people finish work when I start and get up when I go to bed, ish). Actually I had thought that 8 hours was the actual time difference but of course, standard GMT is 9 hours different, but I suppose my misconception is due to having left for Japan in the summer.

Anyway, to make things even more confusing my daily routine has changed - since the poo incident I have changed pools and because the opening hours at the new pool are better, I have been going in the mornings before work (only involves getting up slightly before six, ugh!) So I have gone back to waiting at dark bus stops and riding dark trains, but it does mean I can come straight home from work - and I can't get over that it is still light when I get home!! All in all I feel like I have more life outside of work because I get up and do something rather than coming straight in, and because I have much more evening. Tess and I survived a term of German and translation class has a month off for Easter so I am so time-rich right now!

Messing with time is weird... I know it's only twice a year but still...