no coffee yet and there's already a crisis.
it's 11:23am est and i have been up for 10 minutes. kim was awake-ish but still in bed. when i finished brushing my teeth and all that great morning stuff i exited the bedroom "suite" (yes this apartment is kinda pretentious but it works out really well.) the master bedroom has french doors that open onto a small hallway, directly across from the bedroom is the master bath. down the hallway there's another door you can close cutting the master suite off from the rest of the apartment. this works very well because i don't let the cats sleep with us (i know all the cat mommies and daddies are gasping right now because i get shit from sally and tracey all the time because all 5 of their cats are allowed to do whatever they want whenever they want to.)
this extra door helps isolate us from slinky who freaks out and cries and bangs on the door. when i lived in the one bedroom by myself i tried letting her in but then she knocks everything off the bedside table on purpose. i don't know why because she never seems interested in it during the day. she also screams at me. you should hear this cat, she doesn't meow, she screams. she's so accusatory too, she makes you feel so guilty for sleeping instead of doing whatever it is she wants. i'd let easter in but you can't play favourites like that. so no one gets to sleep with us. slinky can be really loud when she bangs on the door though so that extra tiny hallway and door is good. it's also bad because it also isolates us from the rest of the apartment, not just slinky.
having been an insomniac for years i value my sleep almost to the point of violence. if someone/thing is keeping me from sleep then i'm likely to get really really cranky with them/it. that's why i used to always kick kevin out of bed and make him sleep on the couch because he was snoring. the philosophy was that i'd be able to sleep if it were not for him, so it made sense that he should be the one who had to go downstairs to the couch. *L* it's easy to see why were no longer together.
so because of this near obsessive desire to be able to sleep uninterrupted we also have the ringer turned off on the phone in the bedroom. if there's an emergency then you'll get me in the morning. except that on the weekends we sleep in and here's where the problem arose today:
as i walk through the living room (cats screaming "mommy! mommy!" and trying to trip me) i notice the light on the answering machine is blinking. there's a message from joann who sounds upset and she says "kim call me ASAP i just got an email from ____ (the professor of their last class) who says our final is unacceptible. he doesn't say why but he says it's due by 10am which is 5 minutes away."
*freak out* it's not even my class and i got hysterical. i ran into the bedroom hallway, threw open the french doors with a whoosh/bang sound and screeched "GET UP GET UP!!!"
poor kim reflexively jumps from the bed, naked, possibly thinking there's a fire in her half-asleep state. she cries "what!?"
as fast as i can i go "you have to call joann ASAP because the instructor says your final is unacceptible and it's due an hour and a half ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
so she starts cursing, pulls on some clothes, and immediately calls joann. i started brewing the coffee in my patented "too strong for most espresso drinkers" way. (6 cups of water, whole pack of coffee. to put it in perspective i believe the pack is supposed to make an entire pot.) so as it brews i come in here, sit down and start writing this as kim talks frantically into the phone.
this was her last class for the master's degree. she needs to graduate now because otherwise she has to wait another year to get her raise. if this guy fails her and joann (i seriously wonder now if he has a problem with lesbians because they're both super butch and out.) it is going to be a big huge deal. tony (yet another gay elementary school teacher in the circle of friends) was telling joann about a position in cincinnati some sort of consulting (she's special ed) and she'd start out at like $70,000 but to qualify she's got to have that masters degree. who couldn't use that kind of money especially with the new baby?
i seriously was like, kim why did you have to go into PE?? *L* she got her lump check for the summer yesterday, she checked her acount and had like $4,000 in it. i was like, "hellllooooo good looking." *L*
anyway, this could be a huge crisis. this could be very very bad. what kind of idiot emails you 5 minutes before he says the paper is due and is so cryptic as "it is unacceptible" and leaves it at that? someone that has some sort of personal problem with you. no one should do stuff like this, come on even if you have a problem with the lesbians you're fucking with people's livelihoods. you're fucking with families i mean yeah kim and me just have 2 cats, but joann and gail have 2 kids one who is just 4 months or so old.
if you pray do it, or send us some good thoughts or whatever. because this could be very bad for them both.
this extra door helps isolate us from slinky who freaks out and cries and bangs on the door. when i lived in the one bedroom by myself i tried letting her in but then she knocks everything off the bedside table on purpose. i don't know why because she never seems interested in it during the day. she also screams at me. you should hear this cat, she doesn't meow, she screams. she's so accusatory too, she makes you feel so guilty for sleeping instead of doing whatever it is she wants. i'd let easter in but you can't play favourites like that. so no one gets to sleep with us. slinky can be really loud when she bangs on the door though so that extra tiny hallway and door is good. it's also bad because it also isolates us from the rest of the apartment, not just slinky.
having been an insomniac for years i value my sleep almost to the point of violence. if someone/thing is keeping me from sleep then i'm likely to get really really cranky with them/it. that's why i used to always kick kevin out of bed and make him sleep on the couch because he was snoring. the philosophy was that i'd be able to sleep if it were not for him, so it made sense that he should be the one who had to go downstairs to the couch. *L* it's easy to see why were no longer together.
so because of this near obsessive desire to be able to sleep uninterrupted we also have the ringer turned off on the phone in the bedroom. if there's an emergency then you'll get me in the morning. except that on the weekends we sleep in and here's where the problem arose today:
as i walk through the living room (cats screaming "mommy! mommy!" and trying to trip me) i notice the light on the answering machine is blinking. there's a message from joann who sounds upset and she says "kim call me ASAP i just got an email from ____ (the professor of their last class) who says our final is unacceptible. he doesn't say why but he says it's due by 10am which is 5 minutes away."
*freak out* it's not even my class and i got hysterical. i ran into the bedroom hallway, threw open the french doors with a whoosh/bang sound and screeched "GET UP GET UP!!!"
poor kim reflexively jumps from the bed, naked, possibly thinking there's a fire in her half-asleep state. she cries "what!?"
as fast as i can i go "you have to call joann ASAP because the instructor says your final is unacceptible and it's due an hour and a half ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
so she starts cursing, pulls on some clothes, and immediately calls joann. i started brewing the coffee in my patented "too strong for most espresso drinkers" way. (6 cups of water, whole pack of coffee. to put it in perspective i believe the pack is supposed to make an entire pot.) so as it brews i come in here, sit down and start writing this as kim talks frantically into the phone.
this was her last class for the master's degree. she needs to graduate now because otherwise she has to wait another year to get her raise. if this guy fails her and joann (i seriously wonder now if he has a problem with lesbians because they're both super butch and out.) it is going to be a big huge deal. tony (yet another gay elementary school teacher in the circle of friends) was telling joann about a position in cincinnati some sort of consulting (she's special ed) and she'd start out at like $70,000 but to qualify she's got to have that masters degree. who couldn't use that kind of money especially with the new baby?
i seriously was like, kim why did you have to go into PE?? *L* she got her lump check for the summer yesterday, she checked her acount and had like $4,000 in it. i was like, "hellllooooo good looking." *L*
anyway, this could be a huge crisis. this could be very very bad. what kind of idiot emails you 5 minutes before he says the paper is due and is so cryptic as "it is unacceptible" and leaves it at that? someone that has some sort of personal problem with you. no one should do stuff like this, come on even if you have a problem with the lesbians you're fucking with people's livelihoods. you're fucking with families i mean yeah kim and me just have 2 cats, but joann and gail have 2 kids one who is just 4 months or so old.
if you pray do it, or send us some good thoughts or whatever. because this could be very bad for them both.