Having the clocks change this early in the year is weird. Today’s fast didn’t begin until after 6, which meant I got to have breakfast this morning before I left for work – something I don’t usually do on a fast day. (On a related note I can now say that I’ve had pickles for breakfast – I figured I needed the salt and electrolytes). On the down side, I found myself driving to work in the dark. It also pushes back tonight’s megillah reading by an hour, making it much more difficult to squeeze in both an early and a let reading like we usually do. Tomorrow will be ever more bizarre – neitz hachammah isn’t till about 7:28, which means that you can’t daven shemonah esreh or read the megillah until then, so an early minyan is out of the question. In my case I managed to find a 7AM shachrit near my office, but even with a 2 minutes drive between megillah reading and work I’ll still be about an hour late simply because we can’t start the megillah till close to 8. (Don’t worry – I already cleared it by my boss). I know most people focused on how the clock change would affect pesach, but pesach already forces us to be so out of whack and to take off from work that being a little more out of whack isn’t that big a deal. For purim on the other hand, we don’t take off from work or temporarily remove ourselves from societal forces at large, so the effect is felt much more directly.

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