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Brin ([personal profile] brin_bellway) wrote2019-03-10 10:41 am

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[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.
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[personal profile] vyctori 2019-03-10 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, man, I was really lucky that my best friend warned me just as I considering going to bed what I thought was early. Otherwise, I would have missed out entirely and would have been very confused why my alarm was going off when it was.

Sorry to hear you got caught out. :/

[personal profile] contrarianarchon 2019-03-11 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
I have literally never not been taken by surprise by daylight savings. It's one of the many large vagaries of the world that my brain just doesn't model very well.

(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)