It’s fun how your mind starts making up random tasks and logical connections when you’re running on empty. Among the more brilliant things I’ve found myself almost doing lately:

  • Making breakfast, put bowl on counter, put milk on counter, pour cereal in bowl; see dog walk into kitchen, pick up dog bowl, pour dog food in bowl; grab milk, almost pour milk onto dog food instead of cereal.
  • Turn on stereo to listen to NPR, then pick up TV remote control in an attempt to change the volume. No, this wasn’t just a case of mistaken remote — I was pointing it at the television.
  • Lift toilet seat and then try to sit down on the rim.
  • Packing for work, think “Need to dock iPod to get latest podcasts,” and go to freezer. Stand in front of open freezer trying to remember what I’m looking for.
  • Get to work, put coffee in filter, take coffeepot to water fountain for water, walk back into office and take coffeepot to printer because it happens to be making noise.



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