Tuesday, September 14, 2004
 

O What A Beautiful Day

Or not. I got the morning off to a raring good start by royally oversleeping, complete with skipping a shower and having to drive to campus.

But that's jumping ahead. When I came down the stairs, I discovered that Alice had apparently had-- how do I put this delicately?-- wiping issues when she'd used her litter box last. She'd taken care of this by wiping the, er, remnants on the stairs. Trust me, that's a lovely thing to see first thing in the morning.

But she didn't stop there. After I was already downstairs, she capped things off by consuming and throwing up a piece of ribbon.

So, tally thus far: overslept; skipped shower; cleaned up cat poop; cleaned up cat vomit.

And things just get better. Somehow, I got out the door without my drama textbook. In other words, after lecturing my students at length about how they should always, unfailingly, on pain of death have their textbooks with them, I forgot mine.

Normally, there's a spare copy of the textbook in the English department reading alcove, but, needless to say, it wasn't there today.

So I taught class sans textbook. Hedda Gabler, on the fly.

I also forgot my watch, meaning it was impossible to pace the class discussion. Plus, I'm just plain obsessive about wearing it; I feel nekkid without a timepiece.

I then proceeded to call the same student by the wrong name not once, not twice, but three times. I think I got so flustered that, once I screwed up, I kept doing so.

All of that, and that's only up to 11:00. I had to come home and then go back to campus, with textbook, for office hours, and I pretty much wasted the rest of the day, aside from reading 50 or so pages of Soul on Ice (comps) while in the current TA "office" (aka "the dungeon," aka that windowless room in the basement, aka the room the janitors and maintenance staff use as a break room).

There really are some days that you should just be allowed to roll over and go back to sleep.

Elvisette philosophized at 9:46 PM