happy darkest day

December 21, 2005

in Personal

Today, once again, is the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year. At this time of the year it seems like there’s no sunlight at all. Get up in the dark, go to work in the dark, sit in a small cubicle under flourescent light, go home in the dark. Maybe there’s ten or so minutes of sunlight walking across the quad from one’s building to the cafeteria. Ten minutes, if you walk slow and don’t take the shortcut along the lawn. But mostly dark. Dark dark dark dark dark. Dark.

It only gets better from here.

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1 Dave Peacock December 22, 2005 at 7:18 am

Year after year I appear to be the only person in my professional and social circles who notices these events, along with the vernal and autumnal equinoxes.

I must add to your blog of course for political correctness and so as not to be hemisphereist: it was the summer solstice (longest day) for our southern brethen. :-)

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