sleep through this...

perhaps there is no better reason to rekindle your relationship with your blog than due to pure humiliation...

i'm sitting in my apartment right now, which is not usually a weird thing -- but it is when you were supposed to board a plane hours ago that you clearly missed... yes, me, who prides herself on her punctuality (i've even said that out loud before to people) slept in and missed her flight... the alarm was set -- and was, in fact, blaring when i did finally wake up...

how i slept through a furiously loud alarm for an hour and a half and therefore missed my flight, yet haven't missed a beat when it comes to getting to work on time for the crack of dawn morning show? -- well, it's beyond me...

in record time i had all my stuff together, picked my friend up who was to drive me and take my car, ran into the airport and was denied at the counter... i could have sworn i heard them say "final boarding call" over the loud speaker as i entered the doors, but i wasn't about to argue with someone who so preciously held my fate in her hands... after scouring for the next available (and reasonably inexpensive) flight, i headed back out the automated doors a little poorer and with the opportunity to try this all again tomorrow morning...

when i was in university i had a friend who notoriously missed his christmas flight home and went through the same expensive ordeal each year... i remember always thinking it was a fairly ridiculous routine to keep up... and although i came close to missing a flight once on the east coast, by some miraculous odds we snuck in at the last minute and got bumped to first class (go figure)...

so now my holiday has begun -- a bit more on the expensive side than i'd planned -- and i guess it's safe to say that things can only get better from here...