For those of you who don't know, Newfoundland has its very own timezone, and it is the only timezone in the world that bases its schedule on being on the half hour, setting it at thirty minutes ahead of Atlantic Standard Time. This really doesn't make much sense, as there are certain states South of the border that correspond to the same longitudinal lines. But you know, China also has its own special timezone, which is uniform throughout the huge country, and nobody questions that.
I'm starting to get used to everything being on the half hour. I think it's really going to mess with me when I move back home.
What's harder to adjust to is the fact that all my favourite television shows are on a whole hour and a half later than they are in Ontario. I really miss Eastern Standard Time for that.
I stayed up to watch the Oscars last night, which, in Newfoundland, started at 9:30 PM NST (8:00 for most of you readers), and didn't end until 1:30 AM. We shooed out our guest and tidied up, so I didn't get to bed until around 2:00, and then had to get up at 7:30 to go to work. I'm hyped up on caffeine at the moment, but I'm sure I'll crash soon.
I can do early mornings after late nights occasionally, but they always catch up on me in the end. The trouble here is that I can't sleep in on Tuesday, which I normally do, because I have to go to work to catch up on the hours I missed last week due to the snow. Then I work again on Wednesday.
The really unfortunate thing about this is that it's Winter Break for Andy, and he has Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday off. So while he gets to sleep in and spend the day in his pyjamas, I have to struggle into dress pants and pantyhose every day at dawn and trudge over hill and dale and ice and snow to work.
Boooooo . . .
Posted by Ally at February 23, 2009 10:23 AM