Long Naps are Very Bad

Well, I went briefly to a party for new students tonight (I actually showed up right at the end...the whole grand entrance thing). Then I went home, just back up the hill, had a little something more to eat, then decided I was going to go back in the office and get a little writing done...

I need to back up the story a bit. On Fridays I normally don't have any formal responsibilities except those which come up from time to time, like Dr. Donahue visiting me to talk about a student writing an M.S.T. (=Master of Science in Theology) thesis that melded his interests and mine. But today I enjoyed a wonderful time of Filipino cultural orientation at the field office. I got a lot of good information about this culture and why they do some of the things they do. On and on and I was working in the office in the afternoon, until I just got tired.

I mean, T-I-R-E-D. So I decided I'd walk back up the hill and take a short nap. Normally, I'm great at that sort of thing, listening to my body when it says it's tired and going to sleep for 15-20 minutes, then being completely refreshed for the rest of the day. But this time I think I slept about 45 minutes, because when I woke up I felt "like the floor of a taxicab," to borrow a line from one of my favorite movies. So I was working a little more in the office trying to shake off the groggy feeling, and that's when Dr. Donahue stopped by.

Back to after the party...I decided I'd come over and do a little more work, because I'm going crazy with the groggy feeling, right? Well, I've been sitting here over an hour and all I've done is make some improvements to the layout of the blog. I have typed I think one sentence on the Jeremiah commentary project, but that's about it for "real" work. I had thought about going down into town to check out the new Starbucks at SM Taytay, or possibly going to reload my cell phone's prepaid card, but I can do that stuff tomorrow.

This was a rambling effort...