Night and (hot) Day

The sun these days is so hot, it seems it’s trying to show us insignificant humans who the boss is. Combined with the responsibility of figuring out how to spend one’s time productively (see- not watching T.V, Facebooking, etc), this stifling heat is enough to drive a person nuts. I think I am about half-way there.

I try to avoid stepping foot outside my house during the day for the fear of being turned into roast turkey. And there is not much one can do being a prisoner at home. I mostly sleep during the day.

All the heat and consequent idling is seriously turning me into a nocturnal being. I stay up late. Very late. And then wake up just in time for lunch.  

Even though I am thoroughly scolded for my newfound love for the darkness of the night; I feel strangely good. No, not for the scolding- even the most accomplished sadist would shy of that (and I am not even a sadist!)

I feel good because I enjoy the time for silent introspection that the night brings, the eerie calm that allows me to think. Of course the fact that I am Batman, looking to protect the masses as they sleep peacefully is the real reason for my sudden change in sleeping habits (but that’s a secret alright!).

Jokes apart, I think that deep down I delight in the fact that no school means I don’t have to get up at 6.00 in the morning. And I want to make hay as the sun shines (pun intended), for once the daily grind of college starts, I am going to have to stop being Batman.

So, in the little time I have left to enjoy my freedom, I will continue to have scrambled eggs for lunch. Hazel Grace argues in ‘The Fault in our Stars’ that eggs should not be relegated to the position of breakfast food, I am doing my bit to show support (you see where I was going with the I am half nuts theory!).

Oh, by the way, I read somewhere that too much sun makes one sleepy (it talked about a specific chemical which is secreted, whose name I forget), so I have an actual ‘scientific reason’ to defend my sleepiness during day time!