At least I tried

It's really quite counter-productive, I think, to come to work this early. Starting off when the world's still dark, squint and you'd think it was still night, squint longer and you just might fall asleep.

Then, watching a long-forgotten sun rise, the grayness blushing into a myriad colours - how can you not stop to watch, to pull out a camera and click away as cars zoom by on the highway, as the clicking shutter and the changing ticks of the road-crossing signals mingle into a beat no one else hears but you?

Half an hour is much too short; and much too long because deadlines are as morbid as they sound.