November 2, 2009
Dear clusterflock
Do you have a mental calendar?
I see the year in two parallel, vertical lines of months: January – August on the left side, September – December on the right. The biggest transition of the year is the jump from August 31 (lower left) to September 1 (upper right). The jump from December 31 to January 1 is lesser but still significant.
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I do, and it’s basically my grammar school calendars that we got at the beginning of the school year so we’d know when the holidays were. My parents always hung it on the refrigerator and it’s now burned in my brain for time immemorial.
It went Sept-Jan on the left and Feb-June on the right. Then July-August were separate and on the bottom.
To this day, September always feels more like a new year than January for me and a lot of this is the mental break to a “new” calendar.
To this day, September always feels more like a new year than January for me and a lot of this is the mental break to a “new” calendar.
Exactly!
I have always been driven so much by the beginning and the end of British Summer time. That jolt forward or backward an hour has always signified so much to me. The weather is irrelevant, it is what that hours signifies that means so much. With the lengthening of the day I feel optimism and hope and the shortening brings a sadness that I always welcome.
There is nothing bad about either, they just mean so much and yet are so different.
Mine is round, like a clock. January 1 is at 3 o’clock. Thus, the winter months are on the right, spring on the bottom, summer on the left and fall on top.
It always seemed to make sense to me, because time is cyclical.
I barely even know what day of the week it is most of the time.