loracs | Oct. 3rd, 2006

You're writing out a mortgage check and you fall asleep after the word "thousand" but then startle awake to find you've written the word "coffee" after it. You know it's wrong, but it takes a lot of hard thinking to figure out why it's wrong. Then you spend the next minute deciding if crossing out "coffee" is enough. Just when I think, "okay, nobody reads this stuff anyway", I realize I don't have enough room to write out the rest of the amount. VOID, start again. This second check was written much like I use to drive after a night out, when a little too much alcohol passed my lips. Carefully, stopping after each word, focusing intensely on each letter. Checking the speedometer, signaling a block before you should, taking all turns slow and wide. "Is that how you spell "two" or should it be "too" or "to"? Relieved when I get to the signature part - I know this - I can do this in my sleep. Ha, I've made a joke - it seems very funny now, but in the morning I'll want to delete this entire posts. Only the early birds will see how stupid tired I am. Did I spell check?