Tonight’s the night when we get our precious hour restored. That is, if you’re into the game of moving clocks which unfortunately, most of us have to play along if we expect to keep our jobs. On the bright side, just think…a whole extra hour to sleep. Unless of course you’re working the night shift, and you get stuck with an added hour.

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How did it get to be November 3 already? I mean, did someone just fast forward the clocks while I wasn’t looking?

It’s funny, because I was interviewing a nurse this morning for an article (yes, on a Saturday), and she mentioned something about night shift. I remembered very clearly how time does most certainly slow down when you are working nights. One night shift minute is equal to at least 90 seconds, although it stretches to about 300 seconds between 3am and 5am. An overall 8 hour night shift is equal to about a 24 shift day shift.

Time does slow down.

However, when I would like it slow down, such as when a deadline is looming, it speeds up. There are only 10 minutes in the hour. Or even less.

November is going to be an extremely busy month for me, and so I’ve been both anticipating it and dreading it. A lot of great exciting things going on, but still, very busy. And then at the beginning of December, two more conferences. I’m not complaining, but they couldn’t have been planned for worse times. I wish they were taking place right now, so I could get them out of the way and clear the deck, so to speak.