Wednesday, 7 September 2022

Can I Have It Back Please?

I "lost" a day this weekend.

You know how sometimes you think it's Wednesday but it's actually Tuesday and you're like NOooo!

Well, I had that this weekend but somehow it was worse, maybe because it was a weekend and a long one at that?

I have not been working on Fridays, so technically I had four days this weekend... Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

So on Friday night I was getting ready for bed and thinking I might go get groceries tomorrow since it's a Saturday and I'd rather not do it on Sunday.  And then part of my brain paused.... *is* it Friday?  It's Friday right?  Oh no... it's not.  Friday's gone, this is Saturday night, which makes tomorrow Sunday and the day after that Monday.  I lost a day. Like really, it felt like my Saturday had just disappeared?

Part of that is likely due to the fact I really did nothing at all on the actual Saturday.  I sat around watching the Burning Man live feed (since it was a dust storm all day there wasn't much to watch but I kept checking in) and some random series online and then I watched the man burn that evening and so when I went to bed I suppose I was a little extra emotional at missing another Burning Man and then I felt like the whole day had gone without me noticing it... I was bummed.

It was a little bit like that for most of the weekend, especially in the mornings.  I'd wake up, sit and noddle around on my laptop and "all of a sudden" it would be 10:30, or noon.  Time just slid away.

It may have been in part due to my intense attempts to distract myself from my anxiety by throwing laptop-based hyper stimulation at myself, but still... somehow I "lost" a day and I'm more than a little bummed about that, but hey, long weekends are always a little time warp weird eh?  Like what day is it now?! (Wed...nesday pretending to be a Tuesday but feeling like a Friday.  Sigh.)

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