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Track 4: Daylight Savings Time

     "Have you ever wanted to be in two places at once?"      Daniel asks me this with an annoying amount of excitement as I'm putting my shoes on to head to the dining hall.      "Uh," I contemplate this. "Probably, I guess, I dunno. Why are you asking?"      "Cause, we're goin' on a road trip tonight, so be ready by 12:50am."      I give him the kind of benefit of the doubt that I know will lead to either enticing or illegal decisions, because Daniel's my friend and I like being invited on adventures.       He tells me later, after we've eaten dinner and gone back to the dorm to decide which movie to watch, that since tonight is the start of Daylight Savings, we just have to do something kind of dumb.       "Explain this to me again?" I say, confused and irritated that his idea of a fun time is always set in the two spheres of the world I hate: outdoors and after 7:00pm. I'm usually out of my bra and doin