I’m sorry to all of you who hate the short days of this season. I love going to work in the dark. I don’t sleep well or much anymore and decided to embrace it. I get to work long before any coworkers do and am usually gone before they come in (then I have to go home and suffer Zoom calls, but at least I can make my office burning hot). I don’t have to pretend to be ‘normal’ or ok which I find painfully exhausting. There is something about being in a greenhouse and look up to see black while the glow of the sodium lamps fills the room with a strange orange aura. I guess I’m kind of in a fishbowl to any passerby’s but I really don’t think about it.

My night vision used to be extraordinary when I was young but has unfortunately declined. It makes driving at night difficult, especially when it’s raining and there’s oncoming traffic. It blinds me. When I was a teenager I used to drive country roads with no headlights for fun and to freak out my friends. It helped that all the roads were limestone derived.