I just realized that before I got here, I had never seen the sun set over the ocean. It’s a little thing, and it had never occurred to me living on the east coast, until a day after I saw it.

I had a girlfriend in college who was from Oregon ("Oregon, where the shadows lie" - John Hodgman). One time she was wearing a sweater that represented the flat horizon of the sea cutting halfway across the disk of the sun. She, thinking of it as a sunset, said "I just realized, you've probably never seen this in real life." I, seeing it as a sunrise, replied that I wasn't often awake that early but I wouldn't say never.