As someone who has no real grasp of time, I need to pay attention to my surroundings in order to figure out what year, season, month, day or hour we are living in at any particular point in time.
Take for example Christmas, the coming of which you can predict from at least three sure signs:
1) People get increasingly annoyed and annoying.
2) You cannot possibly fit into a shop, and even if you can, you cannot stay there for longer than a few minutes because of the annoying Christmas tunes.
3) News about chocolate’s health effects (from a study sponsored by a major chocolate company) circulate on the web.
Today (or rather yesterday), all major science news websites carried this story about cocoa lowering your blood pressure. And still, I have been told by trustworthy sources, it is not Christmas yet. I am confused.
