2010, Off to a Great Start

January 4, 2010 09:23 PM

I should start out by saying that, no, I don't have a New Year's Resolution to blog more. I actually don't have any New Year's Resolutions. But in the coming year I'd like to get into a mental state that I'm not so self-conscious about what I post, stop telling myself that I should post more, and don't feel so much pressure when I don't post. With the goal being shorter, more conversational posts.

Anyway. That's not the point. The point is, my new year is off to an ominous start.

First, I woke up about 30 minutes late for a meeting today. It wasn't critical that I be there, but it was just a really unpleasant way to wake up to the first work day of the new year.

I blame the fact that I forgot to turn the alarm on my cell phone back on after the long weekend.

Well, that, and I slept through my actual alarm clock. Which I do, because I'm a heavy sleeper. (At this point, current and previous roommates who are reading this are probably logging in to post snarky, vaguely passive-aggressive comments.) I don't even remember shutting it off or waking at all, but the best I can tell it was on.

Last night, before going to bed, I was reading a chapter in this book on dealing with anxiety I started a couple of weeks ago. And I don't mean the fluffy, self-help-y, I'm-OK-You're-OK, Tony-Robbins-hungry sort of stuff, I mean a real book written by a real therapist.

Anyway, the example given for the section on countering "should/must thinking" I was reading?

Being late to a work function.

OK, so the actual example posited being stuck in traffic rather than oversleeping, but if I were a superstitious man, that would bother me.

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