What's up? I think the eclipse in Indianapolis happened around 515am Sydney time. We just had a cessation of daylight savings last Sunday and Ramadan is around four weeks in.
While real Muslims are fasting all day religiously and not even drinking any water, and marrying their cousins after their parents and grandparents did the same, his Benjiness is practicing a kind of 'jewish' Islam, to quote one Tajikistani's former work colleague's take of my religion. This fasting involves drinking as much coffee with sugar or sweetener and milk as I like, plus breaking fast around two hours before sun down (this year). Previous years I'd been more observant not eating til actual full darkness in the sky.
I'm still making an effort, still experiencing hunger, still feeling all the starving kids' sense of hunger around the world. But with more of a Christian, eating the corn off the stalks during the Sabbath kind of bent.
Anyway I woke up around 4am and couldn't sleep for around 90 minutes due to mild insomnia. Happily oblivious to the lunar eclipse. I realised watching it on my phone around four hours later, probably a good excuse for pseudo Muslims like me to quickly have a one off snack in the middle of the day, given that the sunlight is blocked.
I dropped around five kilos or ten pounds during Ramadan on my particular styles intermittent diet. Every year I say I'd like to just spend my entire year only eating after 6pm to bedtime, and every year I just go back to eating at all hours, and weighing an extra nine pounds.
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