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December 15, 2007
Out
I passed out on the couch last night.
There I was, horizontal, playing an innocent game of sudoku on my laptop, and it just sort of snuck up on me. In that, "Maybe I'll just close my eyes a lit... woah... need to stay... don't fall asl... don't... hhhnkkkhhnnkkhhnnkkkkzzzzzzz... zzz... zzz... zzz..." kind of way.
It was a power nap of the deepest and most intense kind. I woke up blearily at one point to discover a cat sleeping on my shoulder and one on my legs, the laptop still resting on my thighs. And then I went under again. I slept for somewhere between 60 and 90 minutes. Hard. Not surprising, given that I got up an hour earlier than usual so I could give a 7:30 final. (I know the university has to work very hard to cram them all into a week, but, Dude, the humanity. Who can take a test at 7:30am? That's 15 minutes before I get up.)
And not only did I tumble out of bed an hour earlier than usual, I was go-go-going all day. Yesterday was a day of final-giving and grading and other projects from 7:30-5:30. In other words, yesterday was LOOOOOOONG. It was a Very Long Day at the end of a VERY Long Week. So I was pretty wiped by the time I got home after dinner.
Anyway, however needed, it was an ill-timed snooze. I fell asleep sometime between 10 and 10:30. When I came to around 11:30 I did not feel refreshed and alert. I never do after naps. Which is why I don't take them. That, and I usually can't just decide to grab a quick sleep and expect to do anything other than lie there on the chosen piece of furniture and think about all of the things I could be doing instead of lying there.
Another reason I don't take naps is the contact lenses. I cannot sleep with them in. They suction themselves onto my eyeballs and it takes time and fluids to undo them. They were seriously attached last night. I had to do four rounds of wetting drops, wait five minutes, wetting drops, wait five minutes before I could skootch them off my eyes. Which means that due to the nappage and the annoyance of the contact lens removal process, I was WIDE AWAKE when I finally crawled into bed just before midnight.
But then I turned off my alarm, and once I got to sleep, I slept until 8:30 this morning, which was very nice indeed.
I have to go in to my office today and finish the grading. (This is my hope,anyway.) I've done the grading for all but one of my classes, so this is--kind of--the final stretch.
I'm almost done with the final exams. I think I have four left to grade. (I needed to meet David for dinner, so I just left those four undone, despite being so close to the end. I really hate leaving a project unfinished, so it was a bit of a wrench.) And then I just need to grade all of their art projects and response papers. Thirty-five of each, I think. I hope I can get them all finished today, because it would be really, really nice to not have the grading hanging over my head anymore. I've got other stuff I'd like to do. Like clean my office(s) and do the reading and build a syllabus for next spring. Oh. My. God. Does it ever end?
Posted by sally at December 15, 2007 10:38 AM
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