Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so (11/365)

[white_hart]

I have been having a vague and woolly sort of a day in which I have kept being surprised to find that it was allegedly Monday, as my brain was convinced that it was either Tuesday or a surprise extra day of the working week which followed on directly from last Friday. Given this, I thought I might have to give up on my intention to post every day after only ten days due to lacking the ability to string a coherent change of thought together. But then I remembered that I have a paid account, and that means I can post polls, so I am posting a very silly poll instead.

Poll #25125 It's about time

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 43

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Do you know what day it is today?

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Yes
32 (74.4%)

No
4 (9.3%)

Well, I thought I did, but now you mention it I need to double-check...
6 (14.0%)

Time is irrelevant
1 (2.3%)

How long ago was 1997?

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A couple of years
5 (11.6%)

About ten years
23 (53.5%)

Exactly 23 years
12 (27.9%)

Sometime in the Dark Ages
3 (7.0%)

Are you always:

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early?
10 (23.8%)

late?
5 (11.9%)

exactly on time, but only because I turn up really early and walk around the block?
15 (35.7%)

on time in a parallel universe?
12 (28.6%)

Are you:

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a lark
10 (23.3%)

an owl
15 (34.9%)

a golden eagle
5 (11.6%)

a velociraptor
8 (18.6%)

SEWIWEIC
5 (11.6%)

What time is love?

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Comments

[tree_and_leaf]

I know it's Monday, but only because it was Sunday yesterday. Later in the week I get more unmoored.

[white_hart]

It is definitely a bad start when I am already this unmoored on a Monday!

[perennialanna]

I am certain it's a Monday, but I am working from home tomorrow which is going to wreck the rest of the week.

(Head said she'd like me to work from bed, two hours at the outside).

1997 is clearly both about ten years ago and in the Dark Ages, but I could't click both.

[caulkhead]

I can manage Monday, because I have choir. After that it goes a bit vague unless I've got a deadline. I know all about deadlines.

[tree_and_leaf]

Yes, I can only do Sunday because it's the one major anchor point in the week...

[el_staplador]

1997 is the year after my youngest brother was born, and I am eleven years older than my youngest brother, so today must be Blursday.

[cosmolinguist]

I had a very vague and woolly day today too, because I slept so badly (dog shenanigans in the middle of the night!) that I couldn't go to work today. And it's been so rainy and gray it's hard to believe it's been a day at all.

[redatt]

Sloth. I don't believe this requires any deep explanation. I'm slow, frequently late and bewildered by this fact, my nails always seem too long (to me at least), there may or may not be moths in my hair (though probably not algae), surprisingly I can swim, occasionally I forget where my limbs are and fall out of my tree (so to speak).

Last week we had Monday followed by four consecutive Fridays then a one day weekend which may have been either Saturday or Sunday--either way it was a shorter than an average day. (The weekend just gone was quite a long time ago, perhaps even the week before last.)

[white_hart]

And are you regularly debauched? (Patrick O'Brien reference, if you haven't read him.)

Time has been doing very strange things since lockdown started.

[redatt]

Not so often these days, I'm afraid. I always felt more than a little sorry Stephen's sloth, not that it stopped me from laughing.

[muninnhuginn]

Ravens! We is ravens.

If we hadn't completed the house purchase today, I would most probably have been less certain about the day.

[caulkhead]

I am a thing that hibernates. Or at least, I wish I was (unless it is bright and brisk and cold. But the rest? Bah).

[frith]

Elaphanthrope. Secretive and wary.

[alithea]

Wombat. Wilbur is my Josh 😉

[white_hart]

Wombatt!

[girlyswot]

This is the content I am here for! Silliness and polls.

[serriadh]

I used to be an owl, but I also need 8-10 hours sleep (ideally) and I now have a toddler who wakes up at 6.00-7.00 (which I know is good for a toddler!) so I've had to force myself into early bedtimes. The days are getting lighter though, so my urge to hibernate (which kicks in about the start of November) is wearing off - I love the cold clear evenings you get in late January/early February.

[white_hart]

I'm mostly larkish but in the winter I'm really more of a dormouse, and would prefer not to be awake at all. (I don't really see much effect from the longer days until at least February, in general.)

[lilliburlero]

The intimate connection between questions #2 and #5 was not lost on me. 1997 can never be more than 10 years away, though I have no great desire to reside perpetually in 2007 either. Is a golden eagle afternoonish? I appreciate this on behalf of all the other Afternoonish people who are tired of Erasure by the warring tribes of Morning and Night.

[white_hart]

I suspect that it's very true that anyone who immediately thinks of What Time Is Love? when considering time-related questions will still be somewhat stuck in the 90s.

2007 was a bit rubbish for me personally, but there's quite a lot to recommend the oughties from a political perspective. At least compared to now.