crows to burnaby

I woke up abruptly at about 4:15 AM from a dream in which I was getting ready for bed on Monday night, but had a horrible sinking realization that I hadn't done any of my UBC work for the day, not even turned on my laptop or checked my email so I frantically started trying to get some work done.

Then I woke up enough to figure out it was still Sunday night/Monday morning and today hadn't happened yet.

But then I couldn't get back to sleep, which happens to me often when I wake up between 4 and 6. Usually if it happens it takes about an hour, but I gave up at 6 and got up and read for a while. I curled up on the couch eventually and got back to sleep sometime around 7:15-7:30.

At 8:15, I half-heard Greg getting ready for work in the background, and my dreams shifted into me waking up and talking to him and sitting on the floor patting the dog. Then I moved a foot in real life and realized I was still asleep on the couch. Then suddenly in real life the dog started barking like an idiot, because he does that when the phone rings, and it shook me very harshly into an ugly, noisy, sleepy, groggy reality.

It turned out to be someone from Greg's department, calling to tell him the power is out all over campus and all classes are cancelled and any non-essential services are suspended. So he gets to stay home today.

Now, me... I was going to be working from home today anyway. I have power.

Do I work because I can? Or take a snow day because everyone else is?

I was still too sleep-deprived to decide, so I went back to bed for a while and now I feel better.

I think I'll do some work. Partly because I can and might as well, but also because if I don't, I'm going to go to bed tonight, Monday night, and realize that I haven't done any of my UBC work for the day, not even turned on my laptop or checked my email...........