Daylight savings has come to Bulgaria. I am not sure why it happens in the States two weeks earlier than in Bulgaria but it does.  So for two weeks the time difference between my hometown Walla Walla and Bulgaria was 11 hours and now we're back to the standard 10 hour time difference. But this may not make a difference to anyone else but me and my MoM.

I'll tell you what does make a difference: the loss of an hour.

Time already seems to slip through my fingers without an adjustment for daylight savings.  Yesterday I wasn't too bothered by the change bu this morning the act of spring ahead seemed unduly cruel.  Luckily it wasn't something that a few cups of coffee couldn't cure.

Then after cup number three I was reminded of this article from two weeks ago in the <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2010/03/daylight-savings-time-health-effects-sleep-.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BoosterShots+(Booster+Shots)">LA Times</a>. The piece is about more than just fatigue cased by the loss of an hour. In fact, it claims that:
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	<li>The number of serious heart attacks jumps 6% to 10% on the first three workdays after the start of daylight saving time.</li>
	<li>Men are more likely to commit suicide during the first few weeks of daylight saving time than they are during the rest of the year.</li>
	<li>The number of traffic accidents in the U.S. spikes on the Monday after the clocks move forward. Canadian researchers have pegged the increase there at 8%. And in Sweden, it jumps by 11%.</li>
	<li>Economists have found that sleep-deprived traders typically produce “large negative returns on financial-market indices” in the week following the shift to daylight saving time.</li>
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Wosa.  Be careful out there!

Luckily I know with a slightly earlier bed time for a night or two I'll be able to get my sleep schedule back on track.  Now the only that thing that will keep me awake at night will be wondering why Europe and America "celebrate" daylight savings time on different days. Or not.