“Fall back.” Or “fall in line?” That’s what we did last night; later than usual this year, because we have to copy whatever the Americans do. Actually, why does the magic have to end? I wish we were on Daylight Savings Time all year round.
Winter is coming, and I guess we’re all depressed and miserable, because apparently we’re no longer interested in “saving daylight.” Some may fight to save seals, whales or the entire planet (keeners!), but “daylight” is just not worth the effort? Sorry, Sun, you’re just not cute and cuddly enough.
Personally I’d rather save as much of it as I can, especially in Montreal, where too many of our hours are “wasted” due of our ridiculous positioning at the eastern end of a huge time zone — we already have sunset about an hour too early for our latitude. Who really needs it to start getting light at 4:30am in June? Barcelona is only about four degrees south of here, so its day is of pretty similar length, yet sunrise and sunset are about an hour later than here, year-round.
Sigh.
Speaking of Barcelona, I’m still waiting for news on my visa (“supposed” to be processed in three months). I spoke to the Consulate again this week, and this time I got some real news. First of all, turns out I’m only one of two people waiting for a residence visa (at this office). Actually, only one of one, because the other guy finally got his visa this week. And he applied at the start of June… I applied near the end of June, so hopefully I’ll hear something this month. Is there light at the end of the tunnel? Fingers crossed that the darkest time of the year will bring me some happiness.