See It...

by Stephanie Wiebe

On very rare occasions, I wake
up early and lie in bed. Most
mornings, I am rudely awakened
from my near-coma state by an
enthusiastic bouncing six-year
old, but there are rare occasions
when I actually lie in bed, alert
for no specific reason. On these
mornings, I like to think about
the people back east.

AS Terrace Review — Wednesday, November 14, 1990

The Way I

"Because of this
wonderful inner
Satisfaction with my
time zone, I rarely wish
I was back east.”

I have relatives in Ontario, and was in Ontario, I'd already be at
I often relish the fact that they’ve work." What a strange thought. It

been up for three hours while
I’ve slept. It’s such a cozy
thought to be thinking while
huddled under a warm quilt, that
there are people who have been
out in the cold weather long
before me. I guess it’s a gloating
sort of thought.

While Ontarioans are stomping
through the biustering snow to
warm up the car for another day,
British Columbians are snuggling
deeper into their blankets, ready
for another warm dream. If I
lived in Ontario, I'd be irritated
every moming to know that my

then occurred to me that I could
look at it from another angle —
that when I’m working, running
around in the afternoon, the
Ontarioans are already home,
enjoying their supper and looking
forward fo the evening ahead.
Would that be a good thing,
having finished your work day
earlier? Would it feel good to be
living in the east, thinking about
your western buddies still slaving
away at the office, while you
enjoyed your Fettucini Alfredo
and a glass of wine?

A Startling revelation: Could

western friends and relatives were speir time zone actually be better

- still in their warm beds, with
hours of sleep left to go. I'd
probably have to phone them —
each moming — worth the long
distance charges — just to wake
them and vent my frustration. On
the other hand, there’s probably
somebody somewhere who is still
lying in a warm bed while I’m
out battling the cold weather, but
since I can’t think of anyone in
particular, I don’t mind. Except

for a few people living in balmy —

Hawaii, but on early icy
mornings, I can’t bear to think
about them at all.

1 really like this time zone we

_ live in here. When I get angry .
" over some political thing that’s
been decided back east, I only

have to remember that those -
people had to get up three hours
earlier, and I feel better. I feel as
if that’s some sort of punishment,
them being up so much earlier —
even though logic says that
they’re not really up any éarlier,
since they’re in a different time
zone and after all, they did go to
bed three hours earlier, I still
prefer 6:45 a.m. in shis time
zone. Just knowing that I could
telephone some big political
heavyweight in Ottawa on his
cellular phone, as he drives his
Continental: through the congested
highways in rotten windy, snowy
sub-zero weather, and I could
sleepily sing, "Ha Ha, I’m still in
my warm bed!" — that’s a great
feeling. That is, if I was the type
of person to enjoy that sort of
thought.

. Because of this wonderful inner
satisfaction with my time zone, I
rarely wish I was back east. But
this morning, I was rushing to get
out of the house on time, and |
was thinking about my relatives
back east who had already been

outside to warm up the car and
complain about the cold ait, and I

“caught myselE thinking, "Gee, if 1.

than ours? Have I been deluding

myself with invalid time-zone-
smugness al] these years? Would
it really be better to live three
hours ahead, accomplishing a
multitude of early morming tasks
while occasionally pausing to
scoff at the late-sleeping
westemers?

Naw. It couldn’t be worth
getting up three hours earlier for.

These volunteers from the Happy -Gang centre were joined by many others to serve
nonalcoholic ‘drinks in the Co-op, Overwaitea and Safeway during Drug Awareness Week in
Terrace. Many residents were pleasantly surprised by some of the exotic drinks and punches
available which proved you don’t need booze to spice up a drink.

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