Working life sucks

It's nearly nine and the toothpicks are still straining beneath my eyelids. Coffee isn't helping. My muscles feel like they're tied to lead weights. I love Daylight Saving's Time.

I did, however, have a nice little sleep-in yesterday. Came breezing into work at 8:10, bugged about being ten minutes late but figuring Texas Tech will survive, log in to my computer screen, look down at the clock in the corner and, huh, that's weird. 9:15? That can't be right. No way I took so long to get to work. Unless... wait a second. It's spring. Spring. Spring forward...

Damn, the clock's right, which means that I'm missing the Monday morning staff meeting that began 15 minutes ago. I dash down the hall and drag a chair up to the full conference table just about the time the meeting is wrapping up. Brilliant.

I had no such excuses today. Up and out of bed at like 4:30 according to body clock time. Horrible. I want to be sleeping. I want to duck out on an early spring break like all the students on campus have. Working life sucks.

Of course, I do get to set things on fire today, so that's not bad. We are making a commercial for Texas Tech's Emergency Alert System. The concept is a parody on the old game of telephone, where a message gets twisted as it is passed down the line. This one turns a simple class closing into a plague outbreak, wildfires on campus and, ultimately, a fireball dropping out of space.

Today I think we're going to play with burning a ball of paper and throwing it across a room to see if we can't get some really high-tech special effects. Hopefully we won't have to activate the emergency system because of it.