There are times I really hate being sensible

[redbird]

I'm home alone at the moment, having turned down an offer to buy me a ticket to a Broadway show to be named later (via the TKTS booth): the show in question turned out to be The Producers. I turned it down because I suspected I'd fall asleep partway through, or have to skip work tomorrow, or both: the former would be rude and a waste of a ticket, and the latter would cost me more than the ticket price, so I'm better off buying myself a matinee ticket.

Not that I've been to the theatre lately, because the sleepiness isn't a one-off, it's a consequence of this damned commute, a situation in which going to bed at 10:45 instead of 10:15 is something I pay for the next day.

And I have this job because the previous temp was sent home after less than a week for falling asleep on the job.

I'm both feeling extra resentment that I've given up the evening out (with cattitude, two of his siblings, one of his in-laws, three nieces, and a nephew) for a job that is likely to end before the month does, and vaguely figuring that it's okay because I'll get my life back soon.

Comments

Sympathy for evils of commuting

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

I hate overly long commutes and know that I can't cope with them, even short-term, these days. (The first time I ever got fired from a job was due to the commute.)

[wouldyoueva.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know how this feels. During the week, I wake up, drive in (my 29.5 mile commute has taken as long as 2 1/2 hours, but that was during an unpredicted snowstorm, and it usually only takes me an hour), eat lunch at my desk, drive home in bumper to bumper traffic, make dinner, and if I'm lucky, manage to scape up enough energy to put on one load of laundry.

On weekends I juggle housework and working off my sleep debt.

When I worked in Baltimore City I got the cold from hell about 2 weeks into the job, and didn't take off to get better because I was still on probation. I ended up being hospitalized with pneumonia, and got fired while in the hospital. (And I still don't know if it was boneheaded things I did from lack of oxygen or being out for a week right after being hired.)

Had I known they were going to fire me, I would have stayed home and not gotten sicker.

Let me know how the show is when you can go to a matinee show.