mousme | Diary of a complete flake

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.

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

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

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.

I know. Extra sleep is always good.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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!"

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An appropriate limerick

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Have you heard this one?

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