On Sunday we went off of Daylight Savings Time, and so today was the first evening we all had to leave work in the real, non-daylight adjusted time. I walked out of the building at 5:37 and it was dark, dark. Streetlights on, stars out, pitch black, no rosy glow in the western sky from the sunset, nothing, dark.
Driving home on streets that I could have seen only last week was fairly creepy. And I think it was for every other commuter as well - a long line of red taillights on the freeway, everyone driving aggressively fast and following too close. I think they all looked up from their desks out the windows and had a sudden panic - "I shouldn't be at work now!" And all jumped in their cars at once and headed for home in a rush - "I shouldn't be out! I have to get home!"
Last year when this happened I comforted myself that the solstice was only a month and a bit away, and then it would get better. Ah, but this year I know, after the solstice is when it actually starts to get cold...
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