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bennet_7Today I was 20 minutes late for work. Why? Western Australia has switched over to Daylight Savings. And I had no idea.
You see, when exams are over I like to decompress. I shut myself in my room and I sleep and I read and I catch up on Battlestar Galactica (almost done!). I don't watch the news, I don't read newspapers and the only time I listen to the radio is when I'm driving (and then I listen to Triple J, which is national and broadcasts from the Eastern States) or when my brother has an I'm-a-teenager-woe-is-me-now-I-shall-listen-to-mainstream-crap-LOUDLY-hissy-fit.
I had known that the Western Australian State Parliament was voting on whether to implement Daylight Savings several months ago but I had never heard the result. And because of my media avoidance, I hadn't heard all the discussion of Daylight Savings and the (apparently) numerous warnings to set our clocks an hour forward.
And so, I was 20 minutes late to work today.
The thing is, in Western Australia we've had THREE referendums on whether to implement Daylight Savings and in all THREE we have voted against it. This decision to implement Daylight Savings now, is the result of a parliamentary vote, so we the people did not get a say. I personally feel like my civil liberties were violated, and not just because I am opposed to Daylight Savings (the time is the time. You can't change the time!).
Anyway, I'm kind of wigging out because of Daylight Savings. I thought about keeping all my clocks on the actual time as a kind of protest but I have enough trouble remembering to do stuff without being out of sync with the rest of the state.
You win this round Daylight Savings but in three years we get to vote and we will win the war!
[Poll #880694]
Tonight is my office Christmas party and we're going on a river cruise. My boss is providing alcohol for adults and under-aged alike so I expect it to be a rather painful experience for me (I don't drink). Plus, Ryan and Liam from work have promised to mock me through out the night with regards to the whole 'not-knowing-it-was-Daylight-Savings-and-thus-being-20-minutes-late-to-work' thing.
Still it could be considered a practice run because two weeks from now, we (my family) are going on a proper cruise. We fly out to Sydney this friday and spend a week there, then we spend ten days at sea, including Christmas. I'm really looking forward to it. We we're going to do the whole adventure holiday thing in New Zealand but with my dad's heart attack earlier on in the year what we really need is just time to relax as a family.
Finally I have updated the emo!sleeve picspam to include Logan's emo!sleeved fists of fury!
You see, when exams are over I like to decompress. I shut myself in my room and I sleep and I read and I catch up on Battlestar Galactica (almost done!). I don't watch the news, I don't read newspapers and the only time I listen to the radio is when I'm driving (and then I listen to Triple J, which is national and broadcasts from the Eastern States) or when my brother has an I'm-a-teenager-woe-is-me-now-I-shall-listen-to-mainstream-crap-LOUDLY-hissy-fit.
I had known that the Western Australian State Parliament was voting on whether to implement Daylight Savings several months ago but I had never heard the result. And because of my media avoidance, I hadn't heard all the discussion of Daylight Savings and the (apparently) numerous warnings to set our clocks an hour forward.
And so, I was 20 minutes late to work today.
The thing is, in Western Australia we've had THREE referendums on whether to implement Daylight Savings and in all THREE we have voted against it. This decision to implement Daylight Savings now, is the result of a parliamentary vote, so we the people did not get a say. I personally feel like my civil liberties were violated, and not just because I am opposed to Daylight Savings (the time is the time. You can't change the time!).
Anyway, I'm kind of wigging out because of Daylight Savings. I thought about keeping all my clocks on the actual time as a kind of protest but I have enough trouble remembering to do stuff without being out of sync with the rest of the state.
You win this round Daylight Savings but in three years we get to vote and we will win the war!
[Poll #880694]
Tonight is my office Christmas party and we're going on a river cruise. My boss is providing alcohol for adults and under-aged alike so I expect it to be a rather painful experience for me (I don't drink). Plus, Ryan and Liam from work have promised to mock me through out the night with regards to the whole 'not-knowing-it-was-Daylight-Savings-and-thus-being-20-minutes-late-to-work' thing.
Still it could be considered a practice run because two weeks from now, we (my family) are going on a proper cruise. We fly out to Sydney this friday and spend a week there, then we spend ten days at sea, including Christmas. I'm really looking forward to it. We we're going to do the whole adventure holiday thing in New Zealand but with my dad's heart attack earlier on in the year what we really need is just time to relax as a family.
Finally I have updated the emo!sleeve picspam to include Logan's emo!sleeved fists of fury!
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Date: 2006-12-04 05:18 am (UTC)When I lived in Arizona, we didn't have DST, and it was great because I didn't have to adjust my children's bed times.That's the biggest pain in the butt. If course, these days I'm moving across time zones in faster rate than DST changes back and forth, so it really doesn't matter.
Short version: DST = meh
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Date: 2006-12-07 08:58 am (UTC)