University Chronicle Extras:
Movies
|
Rate a Pic
|
Horoscopes
|
Career
|
Scholarships
|
Travel
|
GradZone
News
Briefly
Calendar of Events
Commentary
Sports
Diversions
World News
Classifieds
Login
Letter Submission
Search
Archive
Publishing Policy
Mail Subscriptions
St. Cloud State University
College Publisher
Home
>
Commentary
Personalities appear in lateness
By Cassie Swanson
Published:
Thursday, November 13, 2003
Cassie Swanson -- Staff Essay
This morning I woke up, confused as always, as I peer over at my clock. Hmmm...8:40 a.m., aren't I supposed to be somewhere? Oh yeah, work, forty minutes ago!
Sadly this has become such a trend with me lately. Not to the extreme of waking up after I am supposed to be somewhere, but now I barely roll out of bed 20 minutes before I am to leave. This is generally how I get mid-semester; I try to pack in so many things that I am exhausted and I don't hear the two alarms I set blaring! It wouldn't be so bad if all that happened is oversleeping, no, there is a process for late days.
First of all, I wake up crabby and just want to crawl back into bed and start the day again, on time. I spend a lot of idle time wishing for that, which doesn't get me ready any faster. Second, I try to figure out how much primping I can cram in. This is where it gets frustrating.
I am already angry at myself for being irresponsible and oversleeping and when I try to figure out if I can look like a scrub and run out without a shower, I get even more annoyed. Why? Because late, tired and frustrated Cassie meets vain Cassie.
Vain Cassie is bad. That is just it, she is evil and I hate that she is a part of me. I am just about incapable of leaving my apartment without a shower, full make-up and a decent hair-do. Vain Cassie can't feel like herself without being put together and that includes all of those components.
I think I have successfully smothered vain Cassie. Just this summer I was finally able to be a little more natural and be ready with just a few curls in my hair rather than a hair-sprayed mishmosh of ringlets and bobby pins. I still do that every now and again, but I have realized that it is okay to have a hair or two out of place and I can actually wear, gasp, a sweatshirt! And I am starting to like that look. Too bad I graduate this year and will have to get back into my regular routine of sweaters, blouses and dress pants.
But until May, I am now able to get out with the bare minimum of make-up and my hair in a ponytail, but it is rough. And trust me, you do not want to be near me when that is all that I had time for in the morning because the suppression of vain Cassie makes way for insecure Cassie.
Insecure Cassie is also bad. There are no other words to describe the awfulness of these alter-personalities that are hiding out until I miss my next alarm buzz. Insecure Cassie feels that if she isn't pre-packaged Cassie, she must look horrible and no one should look at her. And if they do, they are horrified by the effects of natural Cassie. Then crabby Cassie comes out again and the whole day is shot!
Seriously though, I think I should start the first branch of late people anonymous (LPA). I can see it now, "LPA at 7:00 p.m. Thursday nights." There the meeting room sits Thursday night, empty at 7:00 p.m. At 7:23 p.m., excuses like "Traffic was so bad tonight" and "I couldn't find my keys" emanate out of the overflowing room. I know that I am not the only one that could use a lifetime membership to the LPA.
To add to the frustration of my late days, those are generally the days in which I really can't find my keys or my belt is nowhere to be found. I think that late people have a tendency to be chronic key losers and live in cluttered little rooms where everything has its own place and you know where things are, just not when you need them. It is a vicious circle.
But I can look at the bright side of this. At least I had something to write about in my staff essay today because until late, vain and insecure Cassie made an appearance, I didn't have enough imagination to think of anything funny to write about!
Forum:
No comments have been posted for this story.
Post a comment
