Diary of a complete flake

[mousme]

My alarm rings at 6am this morning. I hit the snooze button four times, feeling uncharacteristically tired. Get up therefore at 6:40. Look out window, and think to myself "Gee it's dark. I wonder if it's raining?" Putter around, check LJ and my webcomics, get ready for work.

Decide to leave a few minutes early to drop off a DVD at my local rental place (Peter Pan, watched it last night, got all choked up at the reunion scene. Am a total sop. Anyway.).

Get on the bus at 8am. At least, I assume it's 8am. Look at watch. It reads 6:59. Damn, think I to myself, my watch has stopped. Look again. Nope, hands are ticking. Maybe the battery's dying. Just great. Now I don't know what time it is, and I'm probably late for work. Fantabulous.

Make a run for the metro, because if it is 8:00, then this is the last one I can catch before I'm late for work. Sit down on metro, turn to nearest guy and ask for time. He checks his watch and tells me it's 7:05.

:::facepalm:::

So I get to work at 7:30 instead of 8:30, grab a coffee and a muffin, and write most of an instalment of Beyond the Pale. May as well put that time to good use, right? I don't know how the hell all this happened. Either I changed the setting on my alarm clock without realizing, or maybe there was a power outage that changed the time on my clock that I didn't notice, or else I moved faster than the speed of light this morning and left the house before I actually got up.

This has gone way beyond absent-minded.

Comments

[sultrysong.livejournal.com]

Goddamn those time warps! However, earlier and later today, in a parallel universe, you were also late for work.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

And in another parallel universe, I was probably on time, too.

[whiskeygirl8.livejournal.com]

You went back in time!! *cue Twilight Zone music*

It's too bad you didn't realize it while you were still in bed. Then it would have been cool.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

I know. Extra sleep is always good.

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

It was the cats. I'm sure of it. They changed the time on your clock.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Evil buggers. I'm not surprised. That way they get fed earlier.

[chasingthenuns.livejournal.com]

I did this same exact thing once when I was still in high school so I was ready like an hour early, and then I'm listening to the radio because I've got nothing better to do and it's a fucking snow day.

[swestrup]

Many alarm clocks (like mine, may it rot in hell) have interfaces thought up by a complete idiot. Its very easy for a sleepy person to change the time rather than the alarm. At least, when I get up an hour early, thats the usual cause.

An appropriate limerick

[montecristo.livejournal.com]

There was a young lady named Bright,

Whose speed was far faster than light,

She went out one day,

In a relative way,

And returned on the previous night.

Re: An appropriate limerick

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah, that's one of my favourites. I used to collect limericks. :)

Have you heard this one?

[montecristo.livejournal.com]

There once was a harlot named Sue,
Who filled up her "business" with glue,
If they can pay to get in,
She said with a grin,
They can pay to get out again too!

Re: Have you heard this one?

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Oh, dude, EVIL! No, I hadn't heard it. That one's great! One of my favourites is this:

There was a young lady from Norway
Who hung by her toes in a doorway
She called to her beau:
"Come over here, Joe,
I think I've found one more way!"