Originally posted on November 2, 2017
Almost chronological list of places I have fallen asleep when I should not have done.
I awake after eight hours sleep. I am exhausted. My body aches. I turn over and to mattress moves up to welcome me. I close my eyes. Nine hours of sleep. Harsh light crawls through my curtain-less window. It cannot touch me. Ten hours sleep. I have to get up. Have an appointment. I think about how bad it would be just to sleep through. My mother bangs on the door. I drag myself up.
- Cafeteria at College
- Front row of business class
- Back row of business class when we had a guest
- Next to the former Polish minister for defense?
- Induction seminar at new job
- Group introduction meeting with new boss
- Through a fire alarm
- Group goodbye from that same job
- The library
- In several open lectures at the UEA
- The library
- On my grandparents sofa but for so long my parents worried about my absence and phoned them
- The library
- When I was supposed to be volunteering
- When I was supposed to be at the doctors
- In a meeting sitting adjacent to the member of parliament for Norwich North
- During a talk by local artists
- Through all the sunlight the day could offer.
There are some places I don’t regret falling asleep:
- In the arms of [redacted] and [redacted]
- The office Christmas party
- The Conjuring 2
- The office February-Christmas party