I’m from California with the greater part of my life spent in central or Southern California. There is a consistency in weather in this area that is glorified by visitors and taken for granted by locals. Not just the “70 degrees and sunny…every. day.” But also that the sun comes up around 630a and sets about 630p (later in the summer). So, this waaaaaaaaaaaay north-ness of the moment is messing with me far more than I could imagine.

I am up by about 8am everyday.  That’s when I wake up.  If I go to bed at 5a I might be able to sleep til 10 but not necessarily.  8a here is as dark as midnight!  Not, if I wait 15 minutes there will be a little daybreak.  BLACK!  And the sun doesn’t start to come up until closer to 10a so my head starts to think, ok, NOW you can start getting things together…except the day is close to 1/2 over…  I never doubted that SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) because I work in theater, there’s been plenty of times I enter the cave of theater when it’s barely light out and leave when it’s completely dark.  A couple weeks of that and you’re a mess but, I’m usually working and so that takes a different kind of toll.  THIS is just bizarre.  It’s kind of like being permanently on Nyquil.  I want to sleep at odd times, I can’t quite remember the day trying to figure out the general time is pointless and everything is just a little hazy.

I’m not really a fan of this.