Thursday, November 6, 2008

Beam me up

I must be on a distant land in outer space, because for the life of me, I cannot get my head out of the clouds. I desperately need to be beamed back to reality, so I can actually finish my work and go home to drink red wine and lie on the couch and ponder the future of our country.

This morning I woke up in complete confusion. Two alarms were doing off, David was shaking me and I had no idea why.

"What day is it?" I asked him drowsily, still having no clue why I had set two alarms on a Saturday morning.

"Thursday, you have to get up and go to work."

"It's only Thursday? My God." This is officially the slowest week in all of humanity.

A similar "head in the clouds" moment just happened to me at work. I came out of the bathroom and just stood there in the hall, not understanding what part of the building I was standing in. It was like I teleported from bathroom to bathroom. It was very disconcerting because I didn't remember walking all the way across the building.

This week has been an emotional roller coaster. I worked 13 hours Tuesday, and I feel like I'm recovering from a huge election day hangover, even though I never took a celebratory sip of champagne. It's like a major sugar rush, then a crash that lasts 5 days. Ohhh brain, get back down to EARTH.

7 comments:

- A - C - said...

Yeah.. it's only thursday.. :-(

Dan-Eric Slocum said...

Prepare for non-stop encounters with these kind of moments in the 50-plus years.

Believe me.

West-Side Stories said...

Have you stopped drinking coffee or as much coffee as usual? A similar thing happens to me when I stop drinking caffeine.

And eric's comment made me laugh out loud. HA!

West-Side Stories said...

Oh.. and I'm logged in as my westside stories... it's colleen

Kristin said...

Colleen - I'm still drinking the same amount of coffee. I think elections just really zapped me mentally and emotionally and I haven't had the right amount of time to detox.

Lisa said...

I'm very concerned. You do not deserve to feel this way. Make sure you get enough sleep!!!

Anonymous said...

That's why!!!! When I am overextended my brain short circuits and I do weird stuff like that.