Daylight Savings Crime
Apr. 9th, 2002 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_gneechI have a confession to make; I was just plain bitchy this morning. The week after we go on Daylight Saving Time always beats me up ... to be working opening shifts at Starbucks that week, is like listening to nails on a chalkboard for seven days straight. And, as a result, I was just a bit testy today.
I don't like being that way. It's not the fault of the people around me that DST is shoved down my throat; it's not their fault that the dot-com crash destroyed what had been a lucrative profession, sending me back to the drawing board; it's not their fault that I have various unresolved personal issues that turn what would otherwise just be a slightly stressful week into a long ordeal. One of my goals in life is to be somebody who makes the environment around them a better place, instead of a worse one, so when I get grouchy, I feel bad about it after the fact.
Once my shift was over, I apologized to the other people for being so grumpy; the consensus reaction was, "Huh? Oh, no, everything's fine." So maybe they didn't notice, I dunno. But I noticed, and I don't want it to happen again.
It helps that I have tomorrow off. I have been working a lot, and when I'm off from work, all I do is sleep, during which time I dream about work. So I'm basically at work even when I'm not. I need some time elsewhere, even within my own mind. With that in mind, it's back to my writing! But I think I'll give that its own entry.
-The Gneech
I don't like being that way. It's not the fault of the people around me that DST is shoved down my throat; it's not their fault that the dot-com crash destroyed what had been a lucrative profession, sending me back to the drawing board; it's not their fault that I have various unresolved personal issues that turn what would otherwise just be a slightly stressful week into a long ordeal. One of my goals in life is to be somebody who makes the environment around them a better place, instead of a worse one, so when I get grouchy, I feel bad about it after the fact.
Once my shift was over, I apologized to the other people for being so grumpy; the consensus reaction was, "Huh? Oh, no, everything's fine." So maybe they didn't notice, I dunno. But I noticed, and I don't want it to happen again.
It helps that I have tomorrow off. I have been working a lot, and when I'm off from work, all I do is sleep, during which time I dream about work. So I'm basically at work even when I'm not. I need some time elsewhere, even within my own mind. With that in mind, it's back to my writing! But I think I'll give that its own entry.
-The Gneech
