let me tell you straight out...i don't believe in superstitions. i don't believe in black cats or voodoo dolls (isn't that an alanis morrisent song?). but some mornings, everything just decides to go the same route...and its normally not quite good.
from about midnight yesterday, i found sleeping increasingly uncomfortable. the heat was becoming unbearable with each passing minute and wasn't letting up! and as usual, there was power outtage for all of the night so it was double jeopardy. then when i managed to fall asleep, i realized that i was in a pool of wet bedsheet! apparently, i had sweat all around the bed and moved about in all the dry sections that there was no more dry part to continue sleeping...you don't wanna know how irritating that is. somehow, i found myself praying for morning to come real quick instead of the opposite. well, lets just say some prayers aren't answered as quickly as you'd hope.
it finally gets time to prepare for work and because i woke so early, i finished dressing too early and sat in the dark waiting for the normal time to leave home...and then it starts raining...torrential to say the least, like that was when i needed a cold breezy rain. so running through the rain to my car, the day seems not to go so bad until i get to the estate gate and for the time, after over two months of living in my house, i get stopped at the gate leading out of my estate. i mean, i almost asked the guy if there was a "make-orok-miserable" meeting during night that everything was acting out now. so after trying to identify myself to this semi-illiterate estate security man at 5.30 am, he finally decides to graciously let me go.
i close my eyes in the backseat just praying that this isn't how my day was planning to play out...when i notice the car slow down. traffic? at 5.30 am? c'mon! well, maybe its just a few cars in front driving all crazy...thats what i kept thinking till 6.30 when we finally got out of it. you know, by this time, i began to actually think that maybe it snot a bad idea to believe in superstitions, but which one could be playing out here?! soon enough, we get to lagos island and we're going by awolowo road ikoyi, which still looks quite like a carnival dumpsite after yesterday's failed excuse of a carnival held by lagos state, when i behold a corpse!!!! i mean, hello???!!! enough already! sheesh. i almost screamed out loud into the wind "WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME!!!". luckily it was all dim lighting so i didn't get any horrid mental picture but it couldn't get any worse, could it?
so i get to work, all extra careful and all, test my chair before sitting, wash my cup before taking coffee, checked my trouser in the mirror to be double sure it wasn't torn (avoiding nasty surprises isn't fun) and then opened my mail...and saw an email from the boss to my bosses' boss (if that makes sense). in my two years at my job, i haven't ever received a direct email from him (happily too) and naturally, i panicked. he wanted me to answer 4 hot legal question like yesterday. the files i needed were in my bosses' office and the secretary wasn't around. i was running late on the already missed deadline and i hadn't the foggiest idea what the questions were talking about (much less the answer...).
eventually, two hours later and a cold cup of coffee downed, i sent him my response copying my boss. and got an almost instant reply from him telling me that my response was downright wrong. i mean, c'mon, miss destiny/nature/good luck, i swear i wasn't the one who impregnated your daughter so can you please please ease up on me? don't make me smile, just stop with the nastiness...i've totally had it.
so now, i am ignoring everyone, avoiding every mail and just totally blanking out the world to avoid any more missteps at least till today ends...i hope tomorrow's sun will bring with it all the luck that seems to have eluded me today!
see y'all around peeps...wish me...er...luck.
from about midnight yesterday, i found sleeping increasingly uncomfortable. the heat was becoming unbearable with each passing minute and wasn't letting up! and as usual, there was power outtage for all of the night so it was double jeopardy. then when i managed to fall asleep, i realized that i was in a pool of wet bedsheet! apparently, i had sweat all around the bed and moved about in all the dry sections that there was no more dry part to continue sleeping...you don't wanna know how irritating that is. somehow, i found myself praying for morning to come real quick instead of the opposite. well, lets just say some prayers aren't answered as quickly as you'd hope.
it finally gets time to prepare for work and because i woke so early, i finished dressing too early and sat in the dark waiting for the normal time to leave home...and then it starts raining...torrential to say the least, like that was when i needed a cold breezy rain. so running through the rain to my car, the day seems not to go so bad until i get to the estate gate and for the time, after over two months of living in my house, i get stopped at the gate leading out of my estate. i mean, i almost asked the guy if there was a "make-orok-miserable" meeting during night that everything was acting out now. so after trying to identify myself to this semi-illiterate estate security man at 5.30 am, he finally decides to graciously let me go.
i close my eyes in the backseat just praying that this isn't how my day was planning to play out...when i notice the car slow down. traffic? at 5.30 am? c'mon! well, maybe its just a few cars in front driving all crazy...thats what i kept thinking till 6.30 when we finally got out of it. you know, by this time, i began to actually think that maybe it snot a bad idea to believe in superstitions, but which one could be playing out here?! soon enough, we get to lagos island and we're going by awolowo road ikoyi, which still looks quite like a carnival dumpsite after yesterday's failed excuse of a carnival held by lagos state, when i behold a corpse!!!! i mean, hello???!!! enough already! sheesh. i almost screamed out loud into the wind "WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME!!!". luckily it was all dim lighting so i didn't get any horrid mental picture but it couldn't get any worse, could it?
so i get to work, all extra careful and all, test my chair before sitting, wash my cup before taking coffee, checked my trouser in the mirror to be double sure it wasn't torn (avoiding nasty surprises isn't fun) and then opened my mail...and saw an email from the boss to my bosses' boss (if that makes sense). in my two years at my job, i haven't ever received a direct email from him (happily too) and naturally, i panicked. he wanted me to answer 4 hot legal question like yesterday. the files i needed were in my bosses' office and the secretary wasn't around. i was running late on the already missed deadline and i hadn't the foggiest idea what the questions were talking about (much less the answer...).
eventually, two hours later and a cold cup of coffee downed, i sent him my response copying my boss. and got an almost instant reply from him telling me that my response was downright wrong. i mean, c'mon, miss destiny/nature/good luck, i swear i wasn't the one who impregnated your daughter so can you please please ease up on me? don't make me smile, just stop with the nastiness...i've totally had it.
so now, i am ignoring everyone, avoiding every mail and just totally blanking out the world to avoid any more missteps at least till today ends...i hope tomorrow's sun will bring with it all the luck that seems to have eluded me today!
see y'all around peeps...wish me...er...luck.
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