Sun's annual leave

this is that part of the year again when, though not weather-wise still, but going by the time the sun sets, it is clear that the time of shortened days have arrived...
the nearer we get to the Equinox, the greater the feeling i have each year that the sun is in need of rest... so it gets to bed earlier... having worked overtime during the summer, it is time that it takes a break (and gives us one too), though in reality, there is nothing like a rest for the sun... if days are getting shorter here, it is getting longer in the Southern Hemisphere... but since i have, till date, only lived in the Northern, it suits me well to think that the sun is working flexi hours...
just imagine our state if the sun, one fine day, just does not rise or rises lazily when our clocks are well past 12 noon?
i, for one, will keep snuggling in bed hoping that my watch is wrong since behind the curtains i will still not see the day...
it is difficult to think of a life without the sun since we have timed ourselves accordingly...
one day, i hope to ask sun, "don't you feel tired of this routine? why don't you inform us and go on take your annual leave... we will adjust admirably, i assure you."
then if the sun listens, we can all have a ball... miss work, be in bed all the while...
but how does one deal with hunger???? moot question, na?