The winter darkness is closing in, each day the sun rises just a little bit later, and sets just a little bit earlier. This afternoon during an exam I gazed out the window, collecting my thoughts, and watched the sun sink below hills at a little after three o'clock. Contemplating the sunset distracted my mind from the post-iceberg-smashed Titanic of my exam. About halfway through all of the lifeboats were deployed, and the orchestra played on to the very last bubbly gasps as I tried to make some desperate effort to save my short essays.
I mean, if the exam had been in anything other than statistics--say, bad metaphors--I would have been in business.
But, anyway, that's over. Yesterday's exam was much better, and started at 9 a.m. My friend and I arrived at the school at eight, and I was struck by the gleaming windows in all of the buildings as exams were started or prepped.
The lack of snow makes the nights and early mornings pitch-black. The contrast when snow falls is stunning, but I rather like the sight of windows glowing yellow in the night.
When it's dark like this, and it is this time of year, I always remind myself that starting, well, next Wednesday (the winter solstice), the days will start getting longer again. And then every 10 days is another half hour of light. We are almost through it!
ReplyDeleteI remember 2009. Not pretty memory :S Hang on there, there'll soon be light :)
ReplyDeleteWhat gets me down about the darkness is how late the sun comes up. But I like the glowing windows and advent lights! We're very nearly there to the solstice, aren't we? 23rd?
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