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Will famine or driving while asleep get me first?

If it's 11:30 on Monday morning and you haven't slept since Sunday morning at 10 and you realize that since there's almost nothing to eat in the house and you have no money and your mom's sleeping because she worked twelve hours last night and you realize all you had to eat all day yesterday was an ice cream float, some grapes and a piece of pizza because again, that's all there was, amazingly the hunger and the tiredness will cancel each other out and you'll be left feeling vaguely tired, not really hungry and only slightly to moderately nauseauted.

On another note, I went shopping for pants and shoes at Kohl's this morning. I paid for the pants, put the cart next to the door and went out to my car. Woohoo, I thought to myself, two pairs of pants and a pair of shoes for 50 bucks. I rock. Wait, I don't have any shoes. Left them in the bottom of the cart. Had to go back in; saleslady was friendly but bemused. Explained that I'd been awake for 23 hours.

Then there was construction at about three different spots on the way home. It is not easy to deal with new things when you are as sleep deprived as I am. A newspaper truck guy flicked me off at a four-way-stop. I swear I was there before he was but maybe not. So out-of-it that my favorite song came on and I couldn't muster up the willpower to sing along.

My body isn't tired at all. My brain feels like the eggs on those '80s anti-drug commercials.

Eight hours till this self-inflicted blogathon is over. Then I can go to sleep at the same time as all the little kids. I can't wait.

What's left on my list to do today?
-Pick up little brother, J., from Driver's Ed
-Go to City Hall to apply for passport
-Go to Police Station to get letter of reference for visa
-Not fall asleep
-Go to bed as soon as allowed

I'm betting I'll fall asleep after I bring J. home from Drv. Ed.

Posted by Tim at August 11, 2003 12:12 PM