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

[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.