Have you ever woken up from a dead sleep with a gasp and the thought that you were late for something but you didn’t have anywhere to be? That happened to me tonight but, I was late for something. I woke up 30 minutes after I was supposed to meet my family for dinner, in Tulsa, 2 hours away. A second later my roommate came in my room to see if I was alive because my other roommate got a call from my sister wondering where I was.

You may be wondering why I was even asleep in Norman when I was supposed to be at dinner in Tulsa. Well, last night I pulled an all-nighter in the darkroom and only got about an hour of sleep on the couch in the art school lobby. Needless to say, I was exhausted when my classes were finally over at 4:20. I ran home and took a shower to get the chemical smell out of my hair before laying down to take a quick nap. I set my alarm for an hour later. I don’t even remember laying down. I think I was unconscious before my head hit the pillow. I slept like a rock for four hours.

When I woke up and Jen walked into my room she said my sister, Erin, had called my roommate, Erin, to see if I was still at home because I wasn’t answering my phone. I guess my sister and parents had called over and over to see if I was on the road yet. I didn’t hear it though because I had apparently turned my phone off when trying to snooze my alarm.

It’s probably for the better anyway because it would have been such a miserable exhausting drive. I also don’t like driving to Tulsa alone at night because I had car trouble on the side of the highway before and that was not fun. So, my family went on to enjoy a delicious meal in Tulsa and I am now going back to sleep in Norman to get up early and head that way in the morning.

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