My Morning

A week and half ago I had a disagreement with my boss about the time I was arriving to work. Typically, I was arriving between 8:25 and 8:35, and occasionally I would get there a little later. I know this is past my scheduled time, but I don't have a first period class and my first class doesn't start until 9:30. I'm only officially scheduled to work until 2:45 and I'm here until 4:30 or 5:00 every day. So I asked my boss if I could just shift my official time later and he did not agree.

So for the past two weeks I've had trouble sleeping, but I've been making it to work by 8:13, my scheduled arrival time.

The weather has gotten colder, but there is a problem with my heater so I'm been using a little space heater. The last few days it has been bouncing back and forth between my bedroom and living room. This morning I knew I needed to make breakfast and lunch and would need some time in the kitchen so after I showered I plugged the heater into the kitchen.

As soon as I turned the microwave on to heat my oatmeal I blew the breaker in the kitchen. So I moved the heater back to the living room, and tried to figure out what to do to get my fridge working again before I went to work. I have one extension cord that runs from behind my bed out to a couple lights so I dug that out and brought it out the living room. I rearranged the television and managed to get the chord to run out long enough to reach the fridge.

Then I brilliantly decided to finish heating my oatmeal first without unplugging anything else from the living room. So I plugged in the microwave and proceeded to blow the power in the rest of the house.

Now, I'm really stressed out because I have to make it to work by 8:13. My boss said I could e-mail him under extenuating circumstances and let him know I'm coming in late, but I would really prefer to use those on my bad insomnia nights, and not to get my fridge working again. However, I can't even e-mail my boss anyway because the power thus the computer is not available.

I go down to the garage and play with the circuits, but it didn't help. I knock on the new landlord's door, but she does not answer. So I called my dad and he gave me some instructions. I played with the switches again. I went back upstairs and the power was back on. Now I hurriedly finished making my breakfast and lunch.

In the process I managed to knock over a glass and break it. Which of course I attribute this to being rushed by an unnecessary start time and the broken pieces of glass in my kitchen are now a result of work stress. I picked up the largest pieces. There are still a few little glass splinters on the counter and floor I will have to get when I get home.

I finished my food, finished getting dressed, and left work. I arrived at 8:06.

It is good that I am arriving to work on time, because it gave me time to write this blog. Also, I didn't have time to make as much food for lunch as I had planned so I'm thinking about running over to Subway. Once I am at work on time it is okay for me to sign out and leave to go get something if I really need to, but not okay for me to get something before (or something like that).

It is 8:31 now, and I got to work on time.