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friends Sleepy Graduation I need a good intro. Except I don't have one. Go figure. My brain isn't mush yet, but I can guarantee it will be soon (I think it's already in that pre-mushy stage). It's Friday, and I'm supposed to be at work at 8 A.M. I walked in the door at 11, three hours late. I do have a very good reason for being three hours late when I am definitely not sick. See, the thing is, I couldn't get to sleep last night. I went to bed around 9:30, I guess, because I knew that I'd have to get up at 6 to be at work at 8. At 1 in the morning, I still hadn't gotten to sleep. My brain was on overdrive. It wouldn't slow down for anything, much less to let me get some beauty sleep. So at 1 I dug my iPod out of my purse and made a playlist of some of the slower songs I have on there to try to make my brain quit running a million miles an hour. I started out with 7 songs, because I figured that that would be enough to make me sleepy enough to actually sleep. I figured wrong. I kept adding songs to the playlist until there were... twenty-something songs on there, I think. The playlist lasted me until 2:30, and I still hadn't gotten a wink of sleep (well, at least not that I can remember, so if I did, it was a very short wink, LOL). So at 2:30, when the playlist ended, I decided that it would be plain stupid of me to try to get up at 6 and go to work on time on such a short amount of sleep. I got up and turned off my alarm, and wrote Mom a note telling her that I hadn't been able to get to sleep, that I had turned off my alarm, and to ask her to please get in touch with my employer and tell them that I'd be in later today. I must have dozed off shortly after that, because I woke up at 3:14. I fell asleep again without any trouble, though, thankfully. I guess I slept til about 6, when I heard Mom and Dad moving about getting ready for their day (I didn't look at the clock). I guess I should have just gotten up anyway, because I was unable to get back to sleep while they were in the kitchen and Mom was in the bathroom right by my room getting ready to go. However, I didn't have the heart to get out of bed. I was hoping that I'd be able to fall back asleep and sleep for another hour or two. And I did, eventually. I never did look at the clock, but I was able to fall back asleep, and the next thing I knew I was awake and unable to go back to sleep (probably in part to the sunshine filling my room with scintillating brightness); I finally looked at the clock, and it was 8:30. Still holding out some hope of going back to sleep, I buried my head under my pillow, and laid around in bed until 9, when I finally decided that I should get up and get ready to go to work. So I'm expecting to be really tired later today. So far, it hasn't been too bad. Of course, I'm slightly tired, and have been yawning all day, but I'm not exhausted yet. It was the worst when I was driving (which is scary). I had to do an errand for Mom before I went to work (I was going to do it on my lunch break, but since I was so late getting in to work, I decided that I wasn't even going to take a lunch break, but work straight through), and I just felt so drained in the car, like I had hardly any energy at all. Not a great feeling when you're driving, if you know what I mean. It's a really slow day at the office today. I'm not exactly sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I mean, it would be nice if there could be this happy medium all the time, instead of having extremely slow days and extremely busy, hectic days. But I guess since this isn't a perfect world, we can't have consistently perfect days at work, can we? :-P At least on the slow days I can update my blogs. And at least we're allowed to listen to music, as long as we have earphones. I'm currently listening to my iPod. I really do love my iPod. :-D In a world without music, I'd never be able to survive. Tonight is my old high school's graduation. I can't believe it's been two years since I graduated. In some ways, it seems like I should still be in grade school or something. Anyway. Mom and I plan to attend. I've got some good friends in the graduating class. I get off work at 5, and the graduation starts at 7; I'll have to go home and eat and pick up Mom, but I really wish I could just go straight to the graduation, just grab something to eat out, because my work is not even 10 minutes from the seminary where the school's graduations have been held for the past... four years, I guess. It's totally out of my way to go home and then return to the area for the graduation. But that's the way it has to be, I guess. Mom says it's out of the question to get something out to eat and go straight there...I guess because she has to go home anyway and change out of her nursing uniform into something suitable for graduation. Thankfully my work attire is business casual, so it's good for a graduation ceremony. My mind just went completely blank. I don't think I have anything else of import to say. My Last 5 Updates |
