...lunchtime doubly so.

[caddyman]

If the wee small hours of the morning when you can’t get to sleep and all the bad thoughts in the world haunt you – say 2.00am to 3.00am – are the hour of the wolf, then the equivalent in the day time is 90 minutes long and falls between 2.30pm and 4.00pm. It’s not as bad, or at least it’s bad in a different way: it is the hour of the dog, when time starts running backwards and boredom beyond human endurance sets in.

We are over three-quarters of the way through that hour now (more, given my slow typing), but it’s a rare day when it doesn’t drag in the office.

Oddly, once we hit 4.00pm, then time speeds up again, sometimes astoundingly so. After 90 minutes of dire and interminable lag, the next hour tends to put its running shorts and pumps on to sprint for the finishing line.

Afternoons are odd things.

Comments

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

time management studiers have known about that for yonks. It is biorythyms I believe. your boirythyms go into a slow dip in energy before swooping up again when you are going to do something you like - like go home. every one likes a siesta and that's what happens.
Humans appear to have a 12 hour cycle and that period between 2.00am and 3.30am is when you should be at your deepest sleep. Then twelve hours or so later you need another power nap.
I usually have trouble staying awake then because I collect Miss Em from School and I need to sit in "my" chair for an hour afterwards.