Of course, in the sane hours of daylight, I yearn for the mercy of happiness - if not for myself then certainly for others.
To get into Mozza on a recent night, I booked about three weeks ahead and had to accept a 5 p.m. dinner reservation: anything at a saner hour was long gone.
In-house jobs are now just as interesting, and demand saner hours.Norman Veasey and Christine Di Guglielmo, a former judge and his former clerk, argue in a new book, "Indispensable Counsel", that a CLO must be a "courageous Renaissance person".
(When I began, there were five, but Nick Gonzalez decided to opt for the comparatively saner hours of a startup).
"I go to Costa Rica and people say, 'Oh, the Ditch Witch," said Ms. Adams, who turns 55 today and cooked at restaurants in East Hampton and Montauk before opening the stand in 1994, hoping it would provide work with sane daytime hours.
The employee benefits are good, the hours are sane, and there is effort expended on things like worthy charities and outreach programs for girls in technology education.
What drove millions of apparently sane people to spend hours of their free time scouring through musty record books and peering into the dark glass of a microfilm machine, when they could be outside having a good time?
No sane observer could defend the hours doctors in training used to work.
Whatever class of transport, no woman is entirely sane following more than 14 hours of travel, including a change at Dubai.
She says she also heard from some scientists that "the hours were more sane in Europe".
Hours after any sane Brit would have retired to the local pub, the Dutch were still gamely standing in an inch of water, hair plastered to their skulls, tapping balls around the sodden course and determined to have fun.
