Do you remember that X-Files episode called
Monday? It's the one where Mulder is doomed to repeat the same fateful day over and over, only with teeny tiny changes in it, each time ending with him and Scully's death by explosion with a bankful of other people during a foiled robbery. It's a pretty keen little episode, despite the fact that it's a blatant rip-off of
Groundhog Day; Carol Burnett's daughter is in it, and she's quite good.
Anyway, I had a series of days just like that this week. TUESDAY: Overslept until Michael woke me up at twenty past twelve. "Don't you have to go to work today?" "SHIT!" Stumble out of bed, throw water on hair, toss on clothes and make-up, call for cab and arrive at work to General Chaos and his minions at my desk. I inadvertently board the incorrect bus home and switch buses in North Beach, WEDNESDAY: Overslept until Michael woke me up at quarter after twelve. This time, all he had to say was, "Hey." Me: "ARGHHHH!" Called for cab, stumbled into work to find that General Chaos' front was still strong; the L.A. office had sent time sheets to be entered. Fiends! I cancelled plans to go to see a friend's comedy show so I could work late and try to get caught up. We run out of half and half at work. The bus I am on coming home has a lot of crazy mumbling and singing people; I wonder if it's a full moon. THURSDAY: I may have broken the pattern by waking up on my own at 12:05 -- quite late but not quite oversleeping. I take a cab anyway because I am lazy. I stop at Walgreen's on the way in for half and half in case work still hasn't bought any; this turn out to be a correct assessment, and again I think I am on an upswing. I even almost rub elbows with Crazy Walking Man on Kearny, which is akin to seeing the groundhog's shadow, so I think maybe my luck is changing....or not. We still have a pile of work to slog through. But hey, that's what winter's always been about. And at least the box full of tapes with people praying no longer needs transcribing, so that's good news.
Right?
Just nod.
I wonder what time I'll wake up tomorrow....
