Dec
1
2004

beep bleep

I woke up this morning feeling warm, calm and well-rested.

And then a surging dread came over me as I realized that there was something dreadfully wrong with that. A quick glance at my bedside clock confirmed it: 10:05 a.m. — 5 minutes late for work, and I wasn’t even out of bed yet. I must have slept through my alarm, or else turned it off and had no memory of doing so.

Cursing, I jumped out of bed and stumbled into the living room, where I dug my cellphone out of my purse. Left a voicemail for the boss: “Hi. I somehow managed to oversleep this morning. I’m sorry. I’ll be in really soon … (long pause) … Oh, this is Alyson.” Went back to my bedroom, where I searched through the “clean clothes I haven’t gotten around to folding yet” pile for a work-appropriate outfit that wouldn’t require ironing.

I was out the door in record time — no more than 15 minutes after I got out of bed. I made it to work by 10:35, cringing as I made the “walk of shame” past my more punctual coworkers to my desk.

Posted at 4:52 PM in personal

Previous entry: allow myself to introduce ... myself (personal) | Next entry: quote of the day: work in progress (quotable)

Post a comment

As a spam-control measure, your comment may require my approval before it will appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting. To avoid the moderation delay, consider filling in your e-mail address. It won't appear on the site, but I use it to whitelist frequent commenters so their comments appear automatically.


The following HTML tags are permitted (if you want to use them):
p, br, a href, b, strong, u, i, em, ol, ul, li, cite, blockquote