Falling Back

Yep. Daylight saving time ending in several hours. And here's a little digression: It's daylight SAVING time, not SAVINGS time. Small peeve. I'm not really complaining about my sleeping schedule getting effed with this time around, since I'm gaining an hour. One hour more of sleeping, partying, drinking, etc. of whatever one happens to be doing at 2 AM Sunday morning.

I was a little late for work last Sunday though. I primarily use my cell phone alarm and then set my regular alarm clock for 15 minutes later. Yeah, I know...."weirdo." I have this fear of being late to work. I wake up and grab my phone to see what time it was - 3:50 AM. So I get a bit grumpy and try to salvage another hour of sleep before I actually have to get up. Then I hear the regular alarm go off. I grab the phone again - 4:00 AM. What the hell is going on? So I just turn the alarm completely off and go back to sleep, figuring the alarm on the phone will wake me up. When the alarm finally goes off, I get up and turn the tv on to watch the news while I get ready for work. I see the time on the bottom corner of the tv and it says 6:00 AM. So now I'm thinking something weird is going on. I change the channel to another news broadcast and it still shows 6:00 AM. SHIT!!! I'm supposed to be at work in less than 30 minutes, and it takes me 30 minutes to drive to work. Turns out that the stupid Blackberry Pearl wasn't updated to the new schedule of daylight saving time and switched the time a week early. So I go through a sped-up version of my daily routine, end up throwing on the least-wrinkled pair of scrubs in my closet and speed down the interstate.

Should have gotten up the first time....