Nixta Sinks

I lived in the Midwest for 5 and a bit years. Specifically in Denver. Although I had a fantastic time and loved the place, I never really fit in entirely, if only because my clock was very different from the average over there (also, I dressed very differently and entertained myself very differently to many locals). In to work at 10:30am or 11. Leave work at 7 or 8pm. Most locals thought I was the laziest bastard around, because it seldom crossed their minds to consider that I actually continued to work after they left at 3pm, having got in at 7am. Likewise, it rarely crossed my mind to consider that they had already been working 4 hours by the time I got in.

I usually kept the same hours in London when I was over there between 2004 and 2006, and when I worked for Linkspoint here in New York/Connecticut between 2001 and 2003.

Now I start work at 9am, because I'm working with England and if I started at 11am, then the salarymen over there would be getting ready to pack up at 4pm (those slacker UK work hours), but I start from the couch and stay on the couch until I have breakfast at 11am.

I was just talking to an old chum over there, and he's been brought lunch (Chinese no less, which will be delicious, but heavy), and it was 11:30am. That's just mental. Heavy lunch at 11:30 in the morning?

I miss Denver at times, but I do not miss that.

Culture, innit.