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July 11, 2006
Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun, please shine down on me
Moving to a new place always involves making some adjustments. In the case of our current apartment, most of these adjustments have been positive. We have laundry now. We have a second bedroom. We have furniture that doesn't irritate my skin. We have a better kitchen. The building walls are thicker. Some very minor things have been negative. We have less storage space (believe it or not). Our good-fabric furniture is less comfortable. The dining space is worse.
But believe it or not, of all the things about this apartment that are taking me some time to get used to, the most difficult has been that our windows face east. I'm sure to many people, which direction their windows face wouldn't matter at all, but it's a first for me, and it's throwing me off. I've had bedrooms that faced south, east, and north, and bedrooms underground, but never a bedroom that faces west, away from the morning sun.
I rely on the sun to wake me up every day. When I set an alarm, the sun is what makes it easy for me to get up. When I don't set an alarm, I trust the sun to wake me up before I've slept the day away. But in the 10 days that we've lived here, I've overslept every single day. And I don't like it. It's been bright and sunny every day since we moved in, but we don't realize that until we open our blinds. I wake up every morning thinking it's overcast and going to be a crappy day. I suppose, in the grand scheme of things, it's not the worst down side an apartment could have, but it's messing with me pretty badly.
For someone who needs a sun lamp anyway, it's a hard adjustment to make.
Posted to Mental Health at July 11, 2006 10:46 PM