sometimes...in the midst of all you have to do...
you are overtaken by a nap...
you had good intentions...
even a list...
and... it IS Monday, after all...
maybe it was because today was the start...
of MY favorite time of the year...
maybe it was lunch...
[or the Dos Equis I had with it...]
or the 2 out of the last 3 nights with little sleep...
or the feeling of accomplishment I had...
sitting in the back yard...
grilling the marinated lamb...
at a cleaned off patio table...
enjoying "fall"...
whatever the contributing factors...
I have just "napped" the day away...
there were SO many years that I went to school [work]...
even when I was exhausted or feeling lousy...
because I had NO choice...
it wasn't that I was so special as to be irreplaceable...
it was just more work than it was worth...
to set-up a sub and then clean-up the mess...
and professional musicians who miss rehearsals or gigs...
don't get paid... and often don't get hired again...
during the last 5 or 6 years I taught...
[after the surgery... I was always tired...]
one of the guys in our brass quintet retired from teaching...
when we rehearsed, which was often, as we were busy...
the rest of us "working stiffs"[active teachers...]
kept kidding him about "all the time he had, being retired..."
"how the only places he had to go were the post office...
and the barber shop..."
always a laugh, since he was "follicle-ly challenged"...
he would laugh & say...
"just wait...time is like money...
you spend what you have..."
I now know how right he was...
the day can really "get away from you"...
like today... with this "nap" thing...
[yawn]
I still have that "nap headache"....
I've had it for the last day or so...
more weather change in my sinus, I guess...
[yawn]
since I'm now retired...
and have the time to nap...
I guess I'll go check for the mail...
[I get my hair cut on Friday...]
maybe I'll go to bed early tonight...
[y-a-w-n]
or maybe I'll take a short nap... before dinner...
[Y-A-W-N]
soundzzz good... zzzzzzzzzzz
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