Awakeness

I was intending to write this to help stay awake, something that can be tricky in the last hour of my shift, but as soon as I sat down I got a sudden stream of guests. It's odd, it's 6:20. Nobody comes to the office at this hour, and certainly not two guests and two calls in the space of ten minutes. It's bizarre.

Moving on from that, the actual interesting story takes place an hour earlier at 5:20. I did a bad job sleeping during the day Saturday, so I was planning on dozing some while here. Actual sleep would be a mistake because I'm still on call, but I can doze in the break room, head resting on my arm in the classic "teen sleeping during study hall" pose. I was fairly far removed from consciousness when the phone rang, and I discovered that I don't actually have to wake up do answer it. The customer service lobe of my brain fired on without disturbing the rest of me, and I had a conversation consisting entirely of automatic responses. At no point in this conversation did I have to actually think. I also didn't bother to stand, or raise my head, or open my eyes. When I was done I put down the phone and slid seamlessly back into oblivion.