Sleeping In

Sleeping in was NOT part of my plan today. But I did. It seems that I failed to turn my alarm ON when I reset the time last night. Since I share an apartment with two other guys, I always figured that if I slept through an alarm than at least one of them would wake me up. Well, what are the chances that none of us set an alarm last night? None of us did.

I wasn’t late for work, but I hate being late and I hate feeling like I’m going to be late. Now don’t get me wrong, I’ve been late LOTS of times for work, but normally I don’t care. This time I did. With a new director in the office, there’s no way I want to set the “late guy” example. But if I was going to be late, I would have just been REALLY late and totally acted like I was supposed to have come in from somewhere else. “Oh, RLY? Yeah, about that. Uhhh… I had a meeting with the Bobs.”

Chip has been giving us more work to do, which is great. I think the three of us in our little office are glad to have the added responsibility. Chip still does entirely too much, but at least he’s giving us more to do. Mike and I worked on a project together all morning and most of the afternoon. We took a little break right before dinner to go to the gym; but besides that, the day flew by with our tag-teaming a massive spreadsheet of data that had to be straightened out, corrected, and cross referenced with an arcane database. That database should do everyone a huge favor and crash into a giant irreparable mess.

Tonight’s special at dinner was “glazed Santa Fe” chicken breasts. I wanted to make a joke about Santa Fe and this chicken, but it was really good. I’m always leery about chicken that is cooked on a grill and is blackened. I saw a television program once that said that when restaurants have meat that is right on the “cook by” date (or maybe a day or two afterwards), they’ll either (1) cook it Cajun-style or (2) blacken it so that the customer can’t tell that it has started to go bad. But in this case the chicken was pretty good.

Tonight we had our continuing managerial training. Ghaaaah! Shoot me now! When I wasn’t busy sleeping, I was watching other people sleep. Having this training at seven at night is not the best idea.

And it’s left me really sleepy.