Manic Tuesday
This is SOOOO not happening to me. In the wee hours of this morning at around 3.30 am, my eyes popped open as though prompted by some unearthly force. With a sole purpose at that: I’ve forgotten to water my money plants and flowers outside at the balcony all day yesterday. Won’t they wilt now? I was thinking in the dead of the night. Which was super madness…it was as though the plants have spirits that beckon me “Waterrrrrr, waterrrr,” to stop themselves from dying. Urghh…and so I stepped out in my flimsy sleepwear and proceeded to water the plants with my eyes half closed and heavy with slumber. You can’t imagine playing the role of a mother to those helpless plants that cannot even cry out if need be, if they were dying. Sigh. The night breeze was cool and fresh and it awakened me somewhat from that sleepy fog. Which was bad news because after that I couldn’t sleep at all. Goddamn insomnia…so I stayed up half the night poking same colored bubbles in this stupid game called Jawbreaker on my PDA phone. It gives a new meaning to the word ‘unproductive’. Oh, I was so tempted to call someone…but it was a few hours before daybreak and I didn’t want to risk hearing curses before dawn so…
Sigh…and it could only get worse from then on. I slept off probably around six plus. And slept through minutes of shrill alarm ringing only to wake up at nine thirty because of some cosmic ticking in the head. Sheer madness I tell you. You can only imagine the frenzy that led to this moment as I sit here, unable to contain myself, itching and itching to bitch about the happenings of this morning, from not being able to find my house keys to tailing behind a car driven by an idiotic daydreamer suspended on the moon. Because that wasn’t all. A moment ago, I had a ring from a client who had wanted to bring forward next week’s meeting to…*chngchngchng* TODAY!
In this meeting I was to face the top people of the R&D team of a leading company in
Malaysia and talk about a new product that supposedly has been studied extensively for its protective effects against cerebral ischemia. Being fresh from the oven there was a lot of reading to do and a lot of points to highlight. And here I am, gaping like a dead fish at the words cerebral ischemia… and so I declare myself brain dead. I have like ten published papers and thesis to study on the product…all within two hours if I skip lunch…I’m balking… turning green and then purple and then blue. I mean, yeah, there was a time when words like arachidonic acid, Q-analogs, cathecholamine formation, astrocytes etc. meant something to me. But that was ten blue moons ago.
ARRRGGGHHHHH…so say a prayer for me. My time on earth is calculated. Adios. Sayonara. Goodbye. Can’t imagine Tuesdays being worse than Mondays, but by God, it sure is. *Sob*Sob*
