Orientation.

7. February 2010 by [JP].

I suddenly awoke. I rubbed by eyes and blinked a few times.
It was pitch dark and cold. I pretty quickly realized I was in my own bed, in my own room, alone. Beyond that, I knew nothing.
There was a slight glow coming from my left, as my CLIQ was plugged in, but upside down. I picked it up, and typed a motoblur update for my twitter, facebook, and myspace. Halfway thru it, i saw the time in the corner. 12:55 am. Not sure which day though, although I assumed sunday morning. I had 4 missed text messages, and about 9 missed emails from various accounts, none of them anything I wanted to know about.
I got up, and come to the laptop, wearing a tank top and boxers. Its probably 50 degrees in the front room, so that wasnt too good of an idea.
I sipped powerade zero, then went and put on the clothes on top of the stack.
I slowly pieced together what i remembered. I remembered not sleeping at all last night. I remembered showering and going to the charity thing. I remembered I had a work order after it, to go assist another unit in the next county over as they worked on restoring the backup to the power unit at a critical goverment building.
I checked my email including a report on that work order, the other employee had found the problem early, a lack of fuel in 2 generators, and had corrected the problem, cancelling me. I dont know if I even got the cancel message before i slept.
My black dress shirt, black tie, and black pants were on the back of the chair.
I had one black sock on, and the other was on the box i use as a night stand.
I went back out to my computer, and found messages from Julia and Amy. Found out who the medics were involved in the crash, confirmed the one I thought was involved, and found out a second one I had worked with previously was also involved.
Responded to some messages on facebook.
I went outside and got my cap, and put it on, to tame my hair, which was pretty much doing a Don King impression.
Hmm, what is this in my pocket? Oh, its an albertsons fundraising key tag for the Children’s Grief Center. Probably from earlier today.
Oh, yes. I wore a tie.
I made several failed blurry attempts to take a picture of said tie.
Heres one that almost worked.

No. I dont smile much lately. Especially when the picture is taken a few seconds AFTER i expected it to be taken.
Ok, now that I’m more aware of what time it is, and when, I think i’m going to get something to eat. And probably drive around the cold, dark, silent city for a while.
Alone. As usual.

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