I’d like it to be dark 24/7.
(Well-written OP by the way, the last bit was a great vent! 
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Move to the tropics.
[QUOTE=Zsofia]
Dude, when do you go to bed? Seriously!
I get down this time of year too - I like it cooling off, but I don’t like it cold, I hate wearing coats instead of jackets, and I can’t stand how early it gets dark. There’s no light at all once I get home, and that sucks ass. Forget gardening, forget doing anything, all I want to do is get in my pajamas and watch a movie or something. It gets me kind of depressed, preys on my feelings. And no, there will not be snow. Ever.
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Well since you are serious… Very early. I start my day at 6:30 and I have nearly an hour drive. So I get up very early. Hence going to bed very early.
[QUOTE=Mr. Excellent]
Hahahaha - that’s awesome, man. I shan’t go gently into that good night, I assure you.
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Happy to contribute. It was the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw the thread title, and was amazed to find that nobody had beaten me to it. 
[QUOTE=Tanaqui]
I love fall. The oppressive heat and claustrophobic skies of the summer is gone. The skies are so clear and the air is so clean and clear. The sunsets are spectacular. The trees are brilliant red and yellow. The persimmon trees are losing their leaves and the sight of orange fruit against bare branches and a raincloud-filled sky is so beautiful and so strange that it is hard to believe it is real.
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I felt that way too, when I was in school and I got to be out in the fall weather every day.
Being in the working world changed all that for me. When you only see fall on the weekends and on your morning commute, you experience the glory of the leaves a lot less, and the darkness a lot more.
For me, that made all the difference. Screw fall. And screw winter even more.
I don’t like how it’s getting dark by the time I go home, either. A couple of years ago, I took my vacation in Australia at this time of year, just to get away from the early darkness. It was great. If I win a Powerball jackpot, I want to live six months in the US and six in Australia, so I never have to experience sunset before 6pm again.
[QUOTE=Revtim]
Man, what about the cooler weather down here though? I can turn off the A/C and open all the windows finally. It’s by far my favorite time of the year here in S Fla.
I also dislike driving home in the dark after work, but that seems a very small price to pay for this glorious cool weather.
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I agree with this. But I do wish I had time to be outside after work. But nope, by the time I get home and walk the dog, the mosquitos are out*, it’s dark, and I have to do my yard-work/play on the weekends.
*Not fair that they don’t even go away in winter! It has to be freezing to get by with no skeeters!
[QUOTE=spooje]
I used to love the fall and the shorter days. Now it depresses me. Seriously. I think a have a bit of the S. A. D. Getting worse as I get older.
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Me, too. Me way too.
[QUOTE=RTFirefly]
Screw fall. And screw winter even more.
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QFT, I like this line better than the Dylan Thomas.
It is Better to Light one Pixel than to Pit the Darkness
Or, for those of you whose mind runs that way, I give you Ezra ound, riffing on the popular Medieval Poem “Sumer is Icumen In”:
Winter is icumen in,
Lhude sing Goddamm,
Raineth drop and staineth slop,
And how the wind doth ramm!
Sing: Goddamm.
Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us,
An ague hath my ham.
Freezeth river, turneth liver,
Damn you, sing: Goddamm.
Goddamm, Goddamm, 'tis why I am, Goddamm,
So 'gainst the winter’s balm.
Sing goddamm, damm, sing Goddamm,
Sing goddamm, sing goddamm, DAMM.
—1913, Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
I’m another fall lover. Summer’s okay, but all the pressure’s off come fall. I’m basically a couch potato at heart, and in summer I always feel like I should be doing something, going somewhere, getting something done when it’s warm and light and beautiful outside. When it’s cold and dark outside, I get to lay on the couch guiltfree. And warm my feet on my heater and sleep under mounds of blankets. And drink hot chocolate daily. And take long hot bubble baths. Yes, fall and winter are really made for couch potatoes.
All seasons have their appeal, if you just look at them the right way. Just yesterday we took a quick day trip out to Yosemite. It’s very different this time of year than in the middle of summer, and not just because there are less people about. Flecks of red and gold dot the otherwise dark green forests, and thick tendrils of fog slide down from the mountaintops. The waterfalls that were mostly dried up several months ago have now been partially renewed by a few early winter storms.