I have a list of things I need to get done: posting student grades, getting to a hairdresser appointment, attending a poetry reading, going to two graduations... In the end, I opt to nap, instead.
I stay up late grading papers, making mistakes that are all in the students' favor because I'm exhausted. I doze off in the chair while getting my hair done. I come home from school after a long week and immediately nod off, attempt to get something done around the house, then nod off again, then eat some nachos and nod off again.
I am so tired that I snooze while sitting in a kitchen chair, the ringing telephone waking me up and scaring the crap out of me: Where am I? What time is it? What day is it?
I stay up to watch the weather report on television, then I nod off in the middle of it and have no flaming idea what it's going to be like for the next few days. I should drag my sorry excuse for humanity to bed, but, ironically, I am too tired to move and brush my teeth.
If I'm still sitting here in the morning, remind me to wipe the drool off the keyboard before I start typing. I am a slug.
(P.S. I suppose this means there's no way my house is getting cleaned this weekend.)
