I really really love spring except for the first few weeks. It's not allergies, the general coulple-ness of the world or anything else spring-y. See, my internal clock follows the sun: when the sun is up so am I, when the sun is down I'm tired. During winter, this works out quite nicely because I end up getting anywhere between eight and twelve hours of sleep every night and I generally function best with about eight and half hours of sleep. Then spring comes around and everything goes to shit.
First off, you've got Daylight Savings Time throwing everything off. My body's gotten used to the sun rising and setting at a certain time. Then the world changes by an hour and I've got to adjust to all that which usually takes me a few days. At the same time, days are actually getting longer which means that my body decides that I should stay awake for longer periods of time. Add on to all of that the fact that I am currently living the closest to the north pole that I ever have (haha, that's actually kind of cool). Brussels is about 50 degrees north of the equator, the closest I've lived to that is Davis which is just shy of 39 degrees. And that means that days are even longer! All that adds up to me getting less sleep, which does not make for a happy Brenda. Hopefully my sleep schedule will regulate itself sometime soon :(
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