This morning I woke up, looked at my watch, thought “I would pay serious money to someone if there was some way to buy another hour’s sleep,” looked at my watch again and discovered I’d misread it and had exactly an hour to go before I had to get up.
so, how are you going to pay yourself?
a piping hot double tall chai latte sounds good.
wait till sunday, when you lose an hour and no one even pays you for it.
that’ll be $3million, please. paypal is fine.
No! I think it’s me! You have to pay me! I’m the Goddess of Time!
Hmmm. I’m not sure about paying you for time, Jo, but if you’ll throw in some of those pills that make you see trails, we’ve got a deal.
Now that she’s on drugs, she probably doesn’t dream about me as often. It’s an unfortunate side-effect.
oh, keiths, there is no drug known to man that interrupts keith dreams, shame on you! (she’s off flying, i believe, so i’m filling in here until she gets online :)
i mean on a plane…
I’m abso-bloody-lutely certain that’s my hour. We had a potential extra hour’s sleep last night (end of daylight savings) which I knew about when I went to bed, but then forgot this morning, getting up an hour earlier than usual.
I lost an hour!
Give it back, or pay up!
no, no, we’re losing ours here tonight. begining of daylight savings.
i’m so confused.
but if you can just describe that hour, by way of identification, i’m sure we’ll be happy to reunite you.
That’s right, e. Start of Autumn here, start of Spring there (I presume). See - you guys stole it!
It was all warm and restful and nestled inside a lovely big quilt, dark and quiet and sleepy.
Mine!
nope, sorry, that’s not the one we have here. our is summerlike, 80F here, long shadows and children playing in the streets. it’s getting scooped off the night and tacked on at the end of the next day. yours must be some other hour. we do wish you the best in finding it.
Oh.
[sniffs]
No, that’s not it. Excuse me, I must go look for my lost little hour.
There there, i wouldn’t worry about it. these little guys have a way of showing back up again just when you least expect them. I’ll bet, around about October, why there he’ll be just as good as new, bursting to show off all of his adventures on the road. trust me, i have experience in these matters. he’ll be fine.
The underlying sentence isn’t much to claim, but the dialog between e and boot is quite stash-worthy.
(every time she [sniffs] it just breaks my heart...)
Ah, good times. Good times.
[sniffs]
no, that’s not it. it’s loss, i’m just not good with it.
[sniffs}
Oh, I did used to love that hour. Apparently it had a shooting star in it.