Holidays in 2008, and other timing
Oct. 24th, 2007 02:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidI got notice of which holidays $Company will be giving us next year, which got me looking at when the Jewish holidays are, and how many days I'll have to take off. There are 10 days of chag on weekdays, but I have to take only 9 of them, since Patriot's Day is helpfully on the second day of Pesach. Also helpfully, Columbus Day is erev Sukkot, which makes things enormously easier.
I always forget from year to year how the headlong slide through the month of Rosh Hashana-Yom Kippur-Sukkot messes with my sense of time: the first Shabbat after the craziness I'm surprised by how early it starts, rather than the gradual adjustment the rest of the year. It makes getting ready that much more challenging. The other frustrating thing is that just as the timing gets fairly perfect (starting not too late, ending with enough time to do something Saturday night), the clocks change, and Shabbat starts before the regular workday ends.
The darkness now makes it feel later than it is, how it always feels in the autumn. By spring, I feel exposed without the comfortable cloak of dark. (But then, I have pretty good low-light vision, and find bright sunlight harsh.) I wonder if realizing it explicitly will make it easier to shift mindsets.
I always forget from year to year how the headlong slide through the month of Rosh Hashana-Yom Kippur-Sukkot messes with my sense of time: the first Shabbat after the craziness I'm surprised by how early it starts, rather than the gradual adjustment the rest of the year. It makes getting ready that much more challenging. The other frustrating thing is that just as the timing gets fairly perfect (starting not too late, ending with enough time to do something Saturday night), the clocks change, and Shabbat starts before the regular workday ends.
The darkness now makes it feel later than it is, how it always feels in the autumn. By spring, I feel exposed without the comfortable cloak of dark. (But then, I have pretty good low-light vision, and find bright sunlight harsh.) I wonder if realizing it explicitly will make it easier to shift mindsets.