The Wake Up

Although it has been two years since I graduated from NYU, I still find myself reverting back to my college tendencies. In college, I had a choice of whether to wake up and go to class or not. Even though with the tuition as high as it is at NYU, you don't have a choice and better be in that class which you paid approximately $250 a day for!

Yet, recently I have been feeling a rebelliousness against the routine inherent in the life of us 9 to 5-ers. Each morning is like that crazy birth control commercial with those synchronized swimmers singing "MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY..."; I wake up, watch my morning Christian devotional program, then head to the shower, watch some GMA and Today, get dressed then head out into the mean streets of NYC.

But today, I rebelled! I felt like a child winning against the big bad giant...only no one was there to witness my victory!

My 6:00 AM alarm went off and then the battle began. I debated rolling over and pretending that I was temporarily deaf, so then if my boss called I wouldn't feel bad about over sleeping and totally missing my work day. Then I realized that was too elaborate. I continued to wrestle with ideas---maybe I could use one of my get outta jail free cards, also known as a sick day---but quickly realized I want to use that at the most opportune time and this wasn't it! Finally, I decided on a method I had perfected in college, something I like to call Extended Wake Up.

Some of my friends had practiced the Extended Wake Up so well that they could shower and get dressed in enough time to have 30 minutes of extra sleep time! Today, I wasn't going to push my luck, so I decided to sleep up until the point of assured lateness......and it felt grrrrrrrreat!

I woke up feeling like I was in a musical! I jumped out of bed, ran to my window, threw back the curtain and yelled out "Good morning!!!!". I felt alive, like I had won the lottery or found 20 dollars! I raced to the shower and got dressed in record time! So quickly, that I had time to run to CVS to return the failed RIDDEX plug-ins from my on-going mice experiments. To my surprise, they didn't deny me a refund.....but said that they would only offer me cash because I paid with a debit card!

Just like that---BAM, BAM--two good things in a row!

God bless the Extended Wake Up!!