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Mar. 10th, 2019 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brin_bellway[cw: embarrassment squick]
Why did nobody tell me we were springing forward today?! I thought it was later than this! The first notice I got was when I glanced over at the TV box and it said 10:40!
...well, at least I realised soon enough to show up at work for lunch shift on time, though I have *much* less time before work than I thought. I've been waking up early these past couple days, but today I deliberately stayed in bed until "9":30 in the hopes of being better rested. I guess I should have listened to my body: perhaps I subconsciously remembered, I often find I wake up early when I'm about to spring forward.
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(I think this might be the first time it's ever taken me completely by surprise? God, I'm usually better about keeping track of this sort of thing.)
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I miss having a predictable schedule, and once again, I don't even get paid for this disruption. (Well, I get paid in sunlight, but I could have had the sunlight *and* the predictability.)
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Apparently it's *on* my Google Calendar if you look, but it's not set to send reminders. Fuck that, I'm changing it to give a week's notice. Gonna go do that now, and then get ready for work.
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P.S. Apparently it's not that easy to get Google Calendar to do that. I will have to figure something out later.
Why did nobody tell me we were springing forward today?! I thought it was later than this! The first notice I got was when I glanced over at the TV box and it said 10:40!
...well, at least I realised soon enough to show up at work for lunch shift on time, though I have *much* less time before work than I thought. I've been waking up early these past couple days, but today I deliberately stayed in bed until "9":30 in the hopes of being better rested. I guess I should have listened to my body: perhaps I subconsciously remembered, I often find I wake up early when I'm about to spring forward.
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(I think this might be the first time it's ever taken me completely by surprise? God, I'm usually better about keeping track of this sort of thing.)
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I miss having a predictable schedule, and once again, I don't even get paid for this disruption. (Well, I get paid in sunlight, but I could have had the sunlight *and* the predictability.)
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Apparently it's *on* my Google Calendar if you look, but it's not set to send reminders. Fuck that, I'm changing it to give a week's notice. Gonna go do that now, and then get ready for work.
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P.S. Apparently it's not that easy to get Google Calendar to do that. I will have to figure something out later.
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Date: 2019-03-10 04:59 pm (UTC)Sorry to hear you got caught out. :/
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Date: 2019-03-10 07:23 pm (UTC)TBH, the main problem here is that my primary clock is--much as I love it--a dumbwatch that can't do DST automatically†. Otherwise I'd have looked at my clock when I first woke up, saw 9:20, and gotten up. Then the surprise would have been seeing the clocks on the thermostat/oven/microwave read 8:20, but I would have had time for my usual morning gaming. (They do say you should try to start the day with something fun, makes it easier to get out of bed.)
(I don't use an alarm in everyday life: my normal waking-up process goes "wake up on my own, notice it's after dawn, check watch to see whether it's time to get up yet, find the answer is 'yes', get up". Sometimes there's a part earlier in the morning where I find the answer is "no" and go back to sleep (which may or may not take a while), and sometimes Mom will wake me up if [she's up, I'm not, and it's later than 9:30] (which is a standing request I've made of her).)
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The good news is that my internal time sense is very easily re-synced to external clocks, so I expect the jet lag to be negligible like it usually is. I feel...basically the way that I normally would on a day where I woke up at 10:30: a bit upset to have missed out on the morning and that nobody woke me up (turns out Mom was still asleep, and had also been caught out), but otherwise fine.
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†It also doesn't keep track of leap years, but you *can* manually tell it "today is February 29th" and it will go along with that. Dad was surprised it could even do that much: apparently *his* digital watch can't do February 29th at all, and you just have to suffer through it.
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Date: 2019-03-11 03:31 am (UTC)(Also, my smartphone with my alarm on it updates automatically, ditto with my laptop, and those are the only clocks I regularly check, so unless I notice a family member changing another clock, I can sometimes miss it entirely. It's not like my sleep schedule is so well laid out to start with)