Of An Extra Hour and Sunderland Shirts

Something funny happened during church today. Our elder came up to give her sermon looking sterner than usual, and she said, "I need to tell you to stick to the times given to you. The worship shouldn't take such a long time, because normally we give the mike to the speakers at half past two, but it's already twenty past three now." We were all looking at her with huge eyes and I nudged Daniel beside me and said, "Weren't the clocks turned back yesterday?" And he looked at me with those huge eyes and didn't say anything, but eventually some people piped up and said, "Elder, it is quarter past two now... the clocks were turned back!" I felt really embarrassed for everyone and everything! It's a good thing I remembered to turn my clock back, even though I wouldn't have except for the fact that I received four separate texts from four different people and two calls reminding me to do so.

I will never understand the reason for turning the clocks back, even though people have explained it to me a thousand times and I just had it explained to me over breakfast this morning. The way I see it, this just makes the sun set earlier and wastes an hour of my day, because I don't mind getting up while it's still dark anyway. Who said the sun has to be out when I wake up?

Anyway, enough of griping about turning the clocks back, I figure it's still not too bad because I got an extra hour of sleep last night. Hehe...

Halloween on Friday was funny because of various reasons. One of my hallmates wore my dress out and dressed up as a werewolf with blood coming out of his nose. Truly gruesome. And I wore his Sunderland shirt and shorts - eliciting comments from hallmates such as "You're going as a Sunderland supporter? That's pretty scary..." of course, just taking the mick out of my poor hallmate who's from Newcastle and a fervent supporter of Sunderland AFC and who lent me his beautiful shirt which I got glue on, trying to paste my beard in a proper position.

But due to reasons which are rather too complicated to explain, I didn't go out in the end...

I will definitely go out with them sometime soon though, and with some of them to the film society on Tuesday.