So on Tuesdays and Thursdays I get up at 5:30 AM so that I can go walking from 6 AM – 10 AM before I teach at 11 AM. Last semester I had to get up even earlier so that I could walk before my 9:30 AM class. As we transitioned from fall into winter, it of course got both darker and colder in the morning, which is very demotivating for someone who is basically powered by the sun.

But today was the first day I noticed that it is finally finally getting lighter outside. Not a lot lighter, but lighter.

It was still cold as all hell, but as I was turning around in Bowness to head back to campus, the sky was definitely lighter.

YAY.
I NEED LIGHT.