beat the clock

In case you've forgotten the drill, I'll explain it so even Chris Sims could understand it...

SPRING FORWARD!
FALL BACK!
The first couple days following the legislatively-mandated tinkering with the natural temporal order are always the worst. The extra hour of daylight is nice enough, I suppose, but it's certainly not worth having to get up an hour earlier.

The KLF - What Time Is Love? (LP Mix) (from The White Room, 1991) - The simplest way to shake off the daylight savings blues is to crank up The JAMs, melonfarmers! Trust in the Timelords, for they possess wisdom far beyond what the minds of mere mortals could comprehend.

make no mistake

I'm taking a break today, for reasons I may or may not discuss tomorrow.

Here's something to tide you over until then:

say it ain't so

It's always darkest before dawn. I've learned this empirically, as I have been...

The Boomtown Rats - Up All Night (from V Deep, 1982)

...or to be more precise, alternating twenty minute stretches of furtive sleep with five minute sessions of cold rinses, which seem to be the only thing that can numb the pain in my jaw.

That's what I call anarchy agony.