power mish-nap

I usually take "power naps" after I get home from school and work. It usually lasts for an hour or two then I get up and do my assignments. I usually sleep at around 12 or 12:30 in the morning, getting four to five hours of sleep everyday. I work 38-plus hours per week in addition to seven to eight hours of school, not including time spent on assignments. This has been my routine since August when Fall semester started, and though I still struggle and it's been stressing me out big time to do full-time work and go to school part-time taking three to four subjects, I'm just glad I'm back in college. Hope I could have it the other way though, full-time school part-time work, pero hindi pala biro ang magpaaral ng sarili mo hehe. Plus bills, bills, bills.

Well, it's been a stagnant two years and it's time to move forward. Not even the recession in America could stop me.

Anyway, I was taking one of these power naps awhile ago so I got into bed by 7 p.m. and set my alarm for 8 o'clock. But as everyone knows, you always have that option to "snooze." However, I don't know which part of my brain-hand coordination doesn't get it but I usually end up pushing that button for completely shutting off the alarm.

Unknowingly, that's what I did just tonight like every other night (and morning as well).

I got up, got my cell phone, looked at the clock and saw that it was 10 before 9. However, when I woke up, I was in that mindset that it was time for me to go to work.

And I get up to go to work at 5 a.m. (leaving the house by 6:20-ish). Seeing that it's 9 o'clock on my phone, well, you could just imagine how I would have reacted.

I kind of panicked and kept on telling myself, "Damn, this is not happening today." I've never been totally late to work and I know how bad this is gonna look on my record.

But I guess it did not dawn on me that it was really dark outside, but hey in Arizona, with all the dust storms, it could be 12 in the afternoon and really dark. And since I sleep with all lights off, it's kind of hard to digest what time it really is (Plus the fact that I do not have wall clock in my room. Better put on things-to-buy list: Buy a wall clock).

Anyway, to make the long story short: I got up, I panicked, I hurried to go to the bathroom to take a shower but I decided to check out what time it really is and to see my father on the room kind of gave me a relief. Yep, it is 9 o'clock, in the evening.

After I got my mind and senses back on track, I turned my laptop on and worked on my reaction paper due for Thursday afternoon.

Kaya ang advice ko, get enough sleep. Now I understand how people who suffer from sleep depravation could end up getting hit by a car while crossing the street (What?).

At tulad ng sabi ni Bob Ong, matulog kayong mga bata pag hapon. Pag nagkatrabaho na kayo (o gaya ng sabi ng Ong, pag natuto kayong umibig), magsisisi kayo kung bakit mas pinili ninyong manood ng Power Rangers kaysa humilata sa kama ng hapong iyon.