whew. hello, wednesday, old buddy old pal.
yesterday was one looooooooooo-oooooooooo-ooooooooooong day. and I didn’t even move house or go to court or wait while a loved one had surgery or anything major. it was Just Plain Long. went like this:
1. alarm 4:45 a.m. ouch.– no, wait– this ouch is also contingent on the going out the night before, drinking, staying up too late– yeah, weird for a monday, but they happen. so, yeah, 4:45 a.m. was painful.
2. stumble around getting dressed, etcetera, which process involved accidentally throwing my laptop on the floor. fortunately, my hand was not actually that far from the ground, and it landed on the throw rug screen side down and, thank deities, did not die. I already had enough adrenalin going at that point to jumpstart a groggy elephant.
3. arrive at work building at 5:30 for agreed-upon 5:30 start time– and sit in the cold and dark for colleagues to arrive and do various things inside the building– depart at 6:00. small gr.
4. drive three hours for a business meeting in another state (meanwhile, have I mentioned that I punch a time clock? oh, don’t get me started). got to move out of the back seat and drive for a delightful hour or so– I tend to get carsick– not actually hurling, just green and evil-feeling. car companions work– they talk about work things, they talk to people on their blackberries (once a descent hour arrives), they send email messages on their blackberries– they work. and I? mainly I exist, just shy of evil-feeling.
5. have very good meeting, which involved the need for me to be quite on and lucid and sharp– was not nearly at the top of my game, but managed it, in the main.
6. receive multiple facility tours– which would have been honestly fascinating (working in manufacturing is this incredible new learning process to me), if only I hadn’t felt like the bottom of the cat box. ooh and aah and manage note to run into any machinery and cause a whole rube goldberg type disaster.
7. return to car and ride three hours return in back seat while colleagues mainly continue to talk on and type into blackberries.
8. did I mention the daylong headache?
9. nausea.
10. arrive back at work parking lot just prior to closing time– don’t even step inside, just get in car, drive home, planning to nap.
11. get in bed, in utter delight– and then lie there, unable to sleep because I am actually too tired, for an hour or so.
12. get up and walk the poor desperate dog.
13. return– do various unuseful things in a fugue state, still unable to sleep.
14. start watching grey’s anatomy episodes on dvd and become unable to quit clicking forward to the next one as each ends. those cliffhangers! they getcha. finally, in exhausted self-disgust, eject the disk in the middle of an episode– at 1:30 in the morning.
15. go to sleep.
That is a horrifically long day. Most of mine start that early in the morning (babies. *sigh*) but they end early, too.
Oh, honey. That is too much, even with a full night's sleep.
but I SURVIVED! RAR! I EAT ROCKS FOR BREAKFAST!(clearly, I am also now drinking coffee and on high gear)
I bet you don't even wash the dirt off the rocks before you eat them! You are mighty!
oh that sounds much more like torture.
At least if it was a Thursday that stretched you out on a rack, you could have stumbled through Friday, and there you go: week all ended.
But of course not; your brutal day would have to be at the beginning of the week. It's just the way it works.
Continue eating rocks, and chewing tin cans and drinking coffee unpolluted with water!