THE DAILY DIVERSION

You all know how exciting it is going up and down the steep slopes of a rollercoaster, right? Well, imagine the exact thing, except when you're trying to sleep.

That was my night last night. I don't know what it is about me, sleep, and Sunday nights, but the three things do not work together. For some reason, I'd sleep like a rock for a little while, then wake up, then sleep a little while longer, then wake up again. This went on all night long. As you can guess, this takes a toll on the person trying to sleep. However, I did drag my carcass out of bed at 7:20 this morning and was at work on time!

Now, I'm not in much shape to do work, but my body is here, and that's what the boss's want, so I'm meeting their requirements, and that's good enough for me!

Actually, I will be doing some work today. Well, I'm planning on it anyway. I didn't do much on Friday, by my own admission, but I know how much we need to accomplish, and how quickly, so there won't be a lot of hanging out time.

I updated the "Rules" this morning, and it is directly associated to the only dream I can remember from last night. In my dream I was dreaming that I was the only person at work. I was here in the office, and everyone else's lights were off. I started thinking to myself "Why am I here? If no one else showed up, then do I really need to be here?"

So, I woke out of that dream and was thinking I don't want to go to work today. I'll just go drive around and see what's going on in Memphis during the day. So, I end up somewhere up in North Memphis at a store like TJ Maxx, at 8:20 in the morning. For some reason they are open, but I'm thinking "really, should I just go to work?" I call our assistant here and tell her to tell the bosses that I won't be in today, but, somehow, instead of talking on the phone I'm standing at her desk, and her desk isn't in our office any more. It's sitting outside someplace where it's sunny and beautiful. My boss wasn't supposed to come into work today, so I'm just telling her to lie to everyone else that I'm sick or something, and I tell her that it's because I had a dream about work and that it wouldn't go well today because of the dream. Some people call things like that an "omen".

Anyway, I'm getting ready to head back home from talking to her and my boss walks across the street, into another place, but looks directly at both of us. "Well, I guess that kills me going back home now. Doesn't it?"

Yeah, then I woke up. No, the first thing that popped into my head wasn't "Man, I don't want to go to work today!" That's a big surprise, even to me. Usually, when I have dreams about work it usually is telling me that I'm thinking about work too much and need a break. Now, however, I know I should've heeded the "omen" of my dream, because I've already got a splitting headache that's been reserved for afternoons here lately. Well, I guess I'd better go earn this punishment!!