Fuzzy Snakes

The past couple days are a blur. Maybe that's due to the only three
hours sleep yesterday night. Or all the physical labor of packing up
and moving our calendar kiosk. Westfield wanted us to move our
fixtures to a storage room on the far side of the mall for two days
so they could get in and start demolition. We declined. As far as we
know our last day is tomorrow. We already closed early because of
them and I spent more than 20 hours in the past two days doing
physical labor (on top of my other duties). I'm sore, tired, and a
little pissed off at the poor planning (I had scheduled staff to work
on this today but we're all done as of midnight last night).

I don't even know how I ended up on this project. It's a situation I
just jumped into to help. We were too busy in the store (and to many
call-outs) to get any other help. I was able to do it because it was
my scheduled day off this week.

But also I'm a little disappointed in myself. I'm not able to do
continuous labor for long periods of time. Yesterday, on 3 hours
sleep, I worked for more than 12 hours without a break. I had to sit
down many times, and I didn't move very fast.

I also got lost in the building a few times (taking out trash and
recycling, sometimes to the old loading dock where I rarely go,
because the fire alarm went off and the buildings were sealed off
from each other). I took freight elevators I don't usually use, and
back hallways I'm still not sure where I was. But even making one of
the many many trips back and forth to the store, the elevator doors
would open and I had no idea where I was.

I was tired. So tired there were a few times I saw cats and fuzzy
snakes wriggling in the shadows out of the corner of my eye.
Interesting that I kept seeing animals moving at the edges of my
vision. Never toasters or beautiful naked women or stacks of money.
Always animals.

And there are chunks of time that I don't remember. I had trouble
finishing sentences and my eyesight got progressively worse so that
by the time I got home I couldn't read my email until I enlarged the
text quite a bit.

Guess I'm getting old.

Damn, that shower massage today seemed like a very, very good
investment.