Do your homework first, THEN play all you like
Thirty years go by, things change and you think you are a responsible and mature adult. Then something happens that makes you realise you still behave exactly like when you were eight.
Yesterday I left work early because I was knackered from three almost sleepless nights in a row.
I went home and watched my first ever repeat of The O.C. (What, lipstick lesbians on a prime-time teen soap? Oh, just a ratings stunt then), then took care of the following daily chores:
- I replied to some emails
- I updated my accounts
- I read the news online
- I caught up with the blogs I read daily
- I updated Bitful
- I downloaded pictures from my camera
- I uploaded the new Franz Ferdinand album on my MP3 player
- I synchronised the calendar and contacts on my mobile phone with Outlook
Dr B. came home, we had dinner, watched some TV waiting for Tesco to deliver, then went to bed.
I woke up as usual a couple of times to go wee during the night, but went back to sleep both times. Now, this is when I usually go 'Damn, it's 3:30AM, I can't sleep, why don't I switch on my laptop and reply to some emails/update my acoounts/read the news/catch up with the blogs I read daily/update Bitful/download/upload… etc?'
Only I'd already taken care of all of that earlier, so I just went back to sleep until the shamefully late time of ooh, six thirty – which for me corresponds to a proper lie-in.
Have I ever mentioned that I spent the entire time I was in education waking up between 3 and 4AM to do my homework and prepare for tests and exams? It bloody worked (top grades all the way through) so why change it?
Why? Because I'm pushing forty and, to quote Ms Aguilera,
Oh oh oh oh oh
My heart is sayin' let's go (go)
Oh oh oh oh oh
But my body's sayin' no (no)
Alright, it might be the other way round, but you catch the jist of it, right?
So this is exactly why this post is time-stamped something like '9:10PM' and not 'stupid o'clock AM'.