Thursday, 3 April 2008 | 9:54 pm

Let There Be Light!

And there was, because despite popular belief, the man upstairs loves us. Seriously, there was no electricity in this joint until about 20 minutes ago. Do you know how infuriating it is to see the people across the street with lights on, and you sitting there with a pathetic candle-lit flicker? It's hard to believe that before electricity, people had to stop working at 8:00pm because it was too dark to see! You kind of take these things for granted because everything these days use electricity. Not just the lights, but the internet modem, the computers and even the bloody alarm clock.

With electricity and light bulbs, we aren't limited to the constraints of daylight hours anymore and are sleeping later and later just trying to cram our hectic lifestyles into 17 hours. But in the pre-electricity days, they only had about 13 hours to do everything, given that at 7 the sun rises, and at 8, it sets. In this day and age, 17 hours isn't enough and people feel as if they have less time than ever when in reality; we literally have more time on our hands. Go figure. We've spread ourselves too thin. I vote continuous public holidays and a blanket ban on homework. Problem solved.

Anyway, I went to my mum's friends house and did some work, and now I'm about to go do more. So much to do, so little time!!

Love,
Mel