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Fifty-fifty - posted at 23:33
The equinox is the great equalizer: even in Alaska, land of the Midnight Sun (or the neverending night, depending on who you ask), we're getting 12 hours of daylight.
But we're all just completely bitching and moaning about it.
"It's so dark here now!" and "The days are so short!" are two oft-heard utterings in these parts. And it's true, when you get used to nineteen hours, twelve does seem awfully piddly.
Two of my friends made such a remark in entirely different situations over the last twenty-four hours and I had to gently remind them that, on this day, we're getting exactly the same amount of daylight as everywhere else in the world.
Maybe it seems so short because we know what's coming: after all, you pay a price for nineteen hours of daylight in the summer -- it's called five hours of daylight in the winter. You'd think we'd appreciate it and try to soak it in while it's here, but no, we take it as a big, fat, depressing messenger.
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