7th
The One In Which I Wake Up At Dawn
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Recently, I decided rather deliberately that my new thing would be to wake up at dawn. I’m not an athlete or even a particularly motivated, carpe diem (latin for “lenten fish day”) kind of guy, but I dig morning light and the way sunsets look in reverse. Each night, I check the sunrise time in my city using Time and Date’s sun calculator. Sometimes, if I’ve got a really tranquil morning ahead of me, I’ll even set up my tripod in front of the window. I’ll take this opportunity to say I’ve never been sorry I lugged it here. On clear days, I get stuff like this:
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I never *have* to wake up at dawn, and if I need more sleep I just go back to bed after the show. That’s easy here thanks to sun-proof shutters, common in Europe, which make America look like Planet of the Apes. Note to America: don’t build another house without these. 
I don’t know if I invented this interest as just a prettier way to count down my remaining days here than ripping pages out of my agenda. Maybe I’ll drop the routine as soon as I’m home (where the eastern horizon is blocked by a house across the street). I hope I stick with it, though. I like saying at parties, “Oh, yeah, I get up every day at dawn. It’s no big deal. My uncle was an executioner, so.”
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