tic toc. tic toc.

I must be one of like six people in the whole country that hates daylight savings time. And this year, with it kicking in a few weeks earlier than usual, it’s just adding insult to injury.

So, my commute from Norwood is even worse than it was from Cambridge, even though the distance is only a couple of miles more. If I’m going to even have a chance of not sitting in the morning parking-lot traffic, I pretty much need to be on the road by about six thirty. Now, I consider myself a morning person, but I’m not one of those people that just hops out of bed wide awake; it’s really hard for me to get out of bed if the sun isn’t up. And here we are, just getting to the point in the year when the sun is kind of up early enough for me to get up on time, when Wham, all you night people go and pull the rug out from under me.

Thanks, guys. No, really.

You know what? You don’t need it to be light at nine pm. You should be inside watching reruns. No one is driving home that late. Even if they are, they’re probably not dead tired, not the way they are in the early morning. Why do you have to take this away from me? And this year it’s just cruel, doing it earlier, just a week or two after I started noticing the difference. Couldn’t you wait until like May, when the sun is up at five am even with daylight savings time?

I know there’s supposed to be this big energy savings associated with daylight savings time, but I’m not convinced. And why don’t they ever talk about accident statistics? I’d be willing to bet car accidents go up when you take away the sunlight from the sleep-deprived early morning commuters. What gives?