How many things can go wrong in one day?
Let's start with the recurring problem. I wake up in the middle of the night,
and can't fall back to sleep again. I try every position, I try concentrating,
not concentrating, praying... nothing. Then somehow miraculously I do manage
to get a few winks just in time to wake up in fear of missing the bus, which
I manage to make. This brings to an end the miracles.
I manage to get orange juice squirted all over my shirt, my desk, while trying
to eat it in the 5 minutes I have before having to go to a meeting. I go to
wash up from the juice on my hands and the towel dispenser refuses to dispense.
At the meeting I say hello to someone by name. Only later do I discover the person
is not the person I thought, and I did not even call her by the right name.
After another meeting I can finally go to lunch, where I somehow get a
container that's different than usual: it has no compartments. I don't learn
about this until I make it to another building, go to sit down, and discover
that my entire (ENTIRE) left pants leg has spilled food all over it. At least
it didn't get on the carpet... only on ME.
Back at work, my progress gets nowhere, I even beg out of a meeting that I didn't
know I had (Three in one day, plus two more people saying "I can meet anytime
today before 4:30 or after 2:00 - like there was any chance in hell I'd fit TWO
more into the day where I was already not getting any work done from so many
meetings?!)
All of a sudden the editor I'm working in simply disappears from my screen. GOne.
BOom. No typing, no touching or moving of the mouse made this happen - it just
up and died. SO I take that as a sign to go home.
On the way out the door, I use my finger to keep the door from closing all the way
so my officemate can get back in without a key. Only it slams on my finger. OUCH.
Miraculously I manage to walk home, because I knew that in my state of exhaustion,
if I failed to get a seat on the bus, or even if the bus was so crowded I couldn't
imagine getting on it, the time I waste waiting will make me more frustrated than
the time it takes to just walk home.
Only when it comes time to cross the street, cars never stop coming. Even when it
looks like there's a glimmer of an opening... no some overzealous driver zooms up
at speeds designed to turn pedestrians into lunchmeat. It takes me so long for
the traffic to finally let me cross that the person who took the long way has
already gotten to where I would have been if I had taken the shortcut.
Fine, but then I try ordering food online and somehow due to misaligned web page,
I order the wrong thing, end up having to pay $3 extra for something I didn't want.
But that's OK, I can print out the coupon I meant to use and they'll take that...
The printer puts out only streaks. So I clean the print head and try again.
Now it's even worse! Finally I send it off only to learn they made the wrong
SIZE of thing so I can't substitute coupons after all.
This is why you should always make sure and get enough sleep! Otherwise things
go wrong, because you're not paying attention, which causes you to get emotional,
which causes more things to go wrong becuse you're emotional.
But you think the cure is to go to bed earlier? No no no! That only makes it
more likely that you'll wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to
get back to sleep. The only solution, it appears, is to force yourself to stay
up late, so that when you do sleep, you do so in a manner that's guaranteed to
not be interrupted by little things like worrying about a first date or the
fact that your bladder is full, or that a loud vehicle just drove past your
bedroom window.
and can't fall back to sleep again. I try every position, I try concentrating,
not concentrating, praying... nothing. Then somehow miraculously I do manage
to get a few winks just in time to wake up in fear of missing the bus, which
I manage to make. This brings to an end the miracles.
I manage to get orange juice squirted all over my shirt, my desk, while trying
to eat it in the 5 minutes I have before having to go to a meeting. I go to
wash up from the juice on my hands and the towel dispenser refuses to dispense.
At the meeting I say hello to someone by name. Only later do I discover the person
is not the person I thought, and I did not even call her by the right name.
After another meeting I can finally go to lunch, where I somehow get a
container that's different than usual: it has no compartments. I don't learn
about this until I make it to another building, go to sit down, and discover
that my entire (ENTIRE) left pants leg has spilled food all over it. At least
it didn't get on the carpet... only on ME.
Back at work, my progress gets nowhere, I even beg out of a meeting that I didn't
know I had (Three in one day, plus two more people saying "I can meet anytime
today before 4:30 or after 2:00 - like there was any chance in hell I'd fit TWO
more into the day where I was already not getting any work done from so many
meetings?!)
All of a sudden the editor I'm working in simply disappears from my screen. GOne.
BOom. No typing, no touching or moving of the mouse made this happen - it just
up and died. SO I take that as a sign to go home.
On the way out the door, I use my finger to keep the door from closing all the way
so my officemate can get back in without a key. Only it slams on my finger. OUCH.
Miraculously I manage to walk home, because I knew that in my state of exhaustion,
if I failed to get a seat on the bus, or even if the bus was so crowded I couldn't
imagine getting on it, the time I waste waiting will make me more frustrated than
the time it takes to just walk home.
Only when it comes time to cross the street, cars never stop coming. Even when it
looks like there's a glimmer of an opening... no some overzealous driver zooms up
at speeds designed to turn pedestrians into lunchmeat. It takes me so long for
the traffic to finally let me cross that the person who took the long way has
already gotten to where I would have been if I had taken the shortcut.
Fine, but then I try ordering food online and somehow due to misaligned web page,
I order the wrong thing, end up having to pay $3 extra for something I didn't want.
But that's OK, I can print out the coupon I meant to use and they'll take that...
The printer puts out only streaks. So I clean the print head and try again.
Now it's even worse! Finally I send it off only to learn they made the wrong
SIZE of thing so I can't substitute coupons after all.
This is why you should always make sure and get enough sleep! Otherwise things
go wrong, because you're not paying attention, which causes you to get emotional,
which causes more things to go wrong becuse you're emotional.
But you think the cure is to go to bed earlier? No no no! That only makes it
more likely that you'll wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to
get back to sleep. The only solution, it appears, is to force yourself to stay
up late, so that when you do sleep, you do so in a manner that's guaranteed to
not be interrupted by little things like worrying about a first date or the
fact that your bladder is full, or that a loud vehicle just drove past your
bedroom window.