Hey! Northern hemisphere folks:
this is my annual reminder to myself and perhaps also to you that if you have the schedule autonomy to permit it, get out for a walk or whatever during daylight hours! It's important!
You can work more when it's dark but you need whatever sunlight is available!
Me, I’m just tickled I can walk earlier in the day and still avoid the sun.
Dealing with sunscreen and hats and such is just…a lot. That said, once it gets cooler, I might brave the radiation occasionally. Only having to deal with face and hand backs with sun protection helps.
Soon…
this is good advice thank you
For those with sunscreen allergies etc: there are light therapy lamps than can help indoors to an extent.
Finland here. Many of my friends in “normal jobs” see no sunlight at all this time of year. I’m so grateful that I can take my dog for a walk at 15:30 and then just continue annotating my data for as long as I like )
laughs in night shift nurse
Posting because @kirbyconrod.bsky.social tells me that they think of this as the Gretchen schedule
Uuuuurgh, do I have to?
[Yes, yes I do have to.]
Good reminder in these (literally) dark days. Also, remember your daily vitamin D.
[cries in "boston sunset time"]
(currently: 4:19pm)
Thank you for the reminder/encouragement! My daylight lamp is out again in the mornings and I forced myself to take a walk yesterday. Essential!
I dread November every year, I wish we would just stay on DST all year. Goes from 6pm to 5pm.
Caae in point, getting out shortly before sunset in northern WA USA today:
What a great idea
Reporting in from 47.6061° N to say that this is absolutely the right advice.
(I say the same to all new students at orientation in September as part of the long-dark survival kit. My Danish friends think its v cute of us.)
Some of us are night people.
Let us be Diana’s foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon—William Shakespeare, 1 Henry IV, I.ii.26-28.
We started walking the cat a few months ago, and immediately realised that it brings her appetite back. She's 16 with chronic kidney disease, so that's a necessity, and we rarely skip a walk due to Weather.
It's amazing the difference it makes to the mood and energy of the humans as well.
