Heh?!

I've done my share of stupid things throughout my life, but I've been confident that throughout each thoughtless incident here and there that I have maintained a baseline level of sanity. Tonight, however, I realized that I really have lost my mind.

I wasn't feeling so hot at school today after an annoying fight with my boyfriend last night, so I decided to go home earlier than usual. Much earlier. I actually left when the kids did at 2:30. I had grand plans of sitting down with my teaching books and laying out my lesson plans for tomorrow and the next week immediately when I got home. Instead, I passed out cold after reading two pages.

I them woke up at 7:45. Shit. Supposed to be at work by 7:50 at the absolute latest. Class starts at 8. Frantic. Threw clothes on, crammed my stuff in my backpack, RAN out the door. I flagged down the first taxi I saw, but it didn't save me much time because the streets in my neighborhood all dead end at various housing projects. Taxi took me as far as it could, ran the rest of the way. Encountered a custodian at the front door, messing with the lock. He's standing directly in my way.

"Excuse me."
"You need to get in?"
"Yes."

As I'm sprinting up the five flights of stairs, I'm thinking, 'what a schmuck. Of course I have to get in. Why are you standing directly in front of a door and asking a question like that?'

8:03 Finally upstairs in my classroom. Things are unusually quiet. Where are the children?! They should be lined up at my door, hitting each other. Where are the other teachers? They should be fighting over our only copy machine in the office because the principal rolls in at 7:55 to unlock it. What is going on? I double, triple, and quadruple check my watch, confirming that it's after 8. I walk down to the gym to see if anyone else is around, still sweating and slightly out of breath.

Finally, I consult the calendar in my phone to confirm that it's not Saturday or something. No. Not Saturday. But it IS still Thursday, and it's 8 PM- NOT 8am.

I am such an idiot. So now that I got 5 hours of sleep this afternoon, I guess I can do those lesson plans now...