I was going to write an insightful post about words, the basis of understanding and finding common ground, but instead I think I need to write about my weekend.

I had a rather surreal weekend.

My husband and I catered a birthday party for a dog. The party was a costume party. There was a dog dressed up as Jacki-O. There was a debutant dog wearing a fur stole. There was a jack-o-lantern dog, a Georgia Bulldog, a ladybug, and a cheerleader. There were other costumes, but they escape me at the moment.

Anyway, we made dog biscuits and a doggie birthday cake. It was the cake that made the experience surreal. That and the fact that every single person asked my husband and I what was in the cake. Every single one.

Also, I ate one of the dog biscuits I made. There was cheese and garlic in them, I couldn’t help it. I walked around the party serving biscuits to dogs. Seriously, I did.

Then, the whole turning back my clock thing happened. I have to be honest, daylight savings confuses the fuck out of me. It messes up my whole natural clock and makes my head wonky. For some reason, I find the changing of time surreal. Like the liquid clocks Dali painted.

Perhaps that seems odd to people who have been doing it their whole life, but it really seems strange to me. The whole idea that simply by changing what time your clock reads suddenly makes the time different is weird. The concept of we humans suddenly willing it to be an hour later or earlier is just plain arrogant. Sure, time is arbitrary to begin with, but the fact that it isn’t set is odd.

I am from Arizona. We didn’t have Daylight Savings time. I never had to change my clock. I never had to worry about Autumn Back, Spring Forward. I find it disturbing. I mean, I was just getting used to the fact that it was dark when I drove to work, then suddenly, it’s not anymore. All at once. I like the gentle transition of Summer into Autumn then Autumn into Winter. The slow change of the cycles of the sun is comforting. The change is jarring.

It also makes me think I’m running late.

Posted by Utopia at October 30, 2006 08:40 AM

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