I cut the maps up to cheat distance

[sovay]

I have not attended weekly services of any kind since I was in grad school. My most regular attendance was actually in college. (See also: how I learned to chant Torah in thirteen days when I was twenty-one years old.) That is nearly fifteen years ago now. Daylight Savings falls back and I remember that ma'ariv falls back, too, because now the sun sets an hour earlier. Fridays are all candles and steepening winter darkness from now on until the sun turns around at the solstice. It is interesting the things that stay in your head, the things that don't.

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[asakiyume]

I did not belong entirely there, but I have never been anywhere I belonged entirely. It isn't what I judge a welcome on. Ditto, and ditto. It sounds as if part of what made them as welcoming as they were was that they were eager for your participation without pressuring; they accepted those not-fitting parts as integral to who you, their friend, were.

That freshman roommate though O_o

Re: Atlantic time, I think it's more to give us a better share of daylight, but yes, it would be very weird to have to switch times when going to New York, for example. We'd share a time zone with Nova Scotia and Puerto Rico. Here's one of the stories on it--it was in the news because a commission gave its recommendation (yes, switch).

[sovay]

It sounds as if part of what made them as welcoming as they were was that they were eager for your participation without pressuring; they accepted those not-fitting parts as integral to who you, their friend, were.

I think so. It was nice.

That freshman roommate though

It was not a good match. She moved out at midwinter. My second-semester freshman roommate was a wonderful person whose idea of a comfortable climate was one hundred percent incompatible with mine, so one of us was either freezing or overheating at all times, but we got through it.

Here's one of the stories on it--it was in the news because a commission gave its recommendation (yes, switch).

Thank you! Fascinating. I am so used to New England winter being dark.

[asakiyume]

I am so used to New England winter being dark.

I think even with a switch, New England winter would still feel dark. There's only so many hours of light, no matter where they're situated. (I'm thinking of the winter we spent in Dorset: Sun didn't rise until about 8 am and set around 3 pm. No switch in time zone would help that...)