Living in Darkness |
Posted Nov 4, 2009 - 8:14:42
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So we've entered my least favorite time of year to work in an office... it's after daylight savings has ended, and we're beginning to approach winter. The sun is barely up when I leave for work most days, and might not be up at all fairly soon. When I go home, the sun is setting, and if there are even slight clouds the world is dark when I walk out of my windowless workplace.
In other words, this time of year I spend the week away from the sun entirely.
While it may surprise some people, I'm a person who loves to see the sun. I may not be the most active person, but even when I'm being lazy and sitting indoors I still want a window to have sunlight shine in on me.
But right now I work in a cubicle farm, where even though there are windows around the outside of the building, they are nowhere in sight from the inside of my cubicle. I sit bathed in fluorescent, flickering light and nothing else. Time has no meaning when 8 o'clock AM and 8 o'clock PM look exactly the same in the first place, so coupled with a total lack of sunlight when I leave... well, let's just say that it doesn't exactly make me want to sing and dance.
And this is just going to get worse. Those flickers of light I see before and after work are going to go away. It won't be until the end of February that I see the sun on a work day.
The whole thing just makes me stir crazy, and I wish I had a good solution to the mess. Honest to god, I would kill for some skylights on this building -- but that's not going to happen... ever. Sadly I can't plug in anything at work, so a sunlamp is just right out of the question too.
So, here I sit, resigned to only seeing the sun on the weekends for the time being.
At least I have that.
- Traegorn
This reminds of wrestling season back in High school. We never saw the sun around then except for Sunday(no pun intended). I would go to school with no sun and leave the school around 6 at night with no sun. On Saturdays, we often were at another school for a tournatment. Again no sun because we left around 8 at night from those schools and came home at 10 on most nights. Yep Sunday was our day to see that sun. I still wonder if that's why it's called Sunday lol.
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