Re: Religion and Holidays, were Socialism (WAS: Re: Why Can't We Just Not Talk Politics?

Quoting Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>:

> >There has been periods of my life in which I've more commonly been awake at
> >midnight than at noon. But then I live in the blessed age of electric
> light!
> >And come from a country where night is more or less optional in summer ...
> >
> >                                                           Andreas
>
> And the converse of this is that day is more or less optional around this
> time of year at those latitudes.  I found it depressing to arrive at school
> (after a long commute) with the stars still shining and to have the sun
> setting before 5pm.  In truth, though, I think I found it even more
> disturbing to wake up at 6 am to find the sun well up in the sky.  That
> really messed up my internal clock.  I was kind of happy to return to lower
> latitudes before midsummer.
>
> Do you feel similarly strange living at lower lattitudes than you're used
> to?
Not really. You get this weird feeling there's no winter (temperature plays a
role here too!), but that's about it. I actually kind of like the properly
dark summer nights you get at lower latitudes, since I find it hard to sleep
without near-total darkness.

                                                        Andreas

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