Signs Of Senility

I’m exhaust­ed today. I try not to acknowl­edge it, but my body keeps remind­ing me.

How is it doing this?

I just peeled a banana, and with the peel in my hand I threw the banana in the garbage.

My dad did the same thing once with an orange. “The old man’s going senile”, I thought to myself.

Hopefully, it’s not due to some degen­er­a­tive brain dis­ease, but the 12-hours I put in at work until mid­night yes­ter­day.

My new sched­ule involves going to ther­a­py after work on Mondays. Today, I also have to go to my framer to sign my pho­tos and mats after­wards. I was going to pick up a drop cloth and back­ground stand at the pho­tog­ra­phy store in between, but I think I’ll skip that.

We’re in the mid­dle of a serv­er swap at work, so I expect client com­put­ers to be burst­ing into flames today. I’m also orga­niz­ing a pot luck for the com­pa­ny at the end of the week.

My mind feels like it’s going in eight dif­fer­ent direc­tions at once.

But as long as I feel, I know I’m alright.

8 comments

  1. I remem­ber putting milk in the cup­board and glass­es in the fridge when I was a kid. I think these things just hap­pen!

  2. Yeah…one of my tutors explained how, for some rea­son, we remem­ber things we don’t even try to, as chil­dren, like our par­ents names, our phone num­bers, our street address­es. I wish that helped me in chem­istry, though.

  3. I’m def­i­nite­ly there with you. Clicking the car alarm-door-open­er at your apart­ment door’s plain brass lock SO does not work. Neither does tak­ing your iPod shuf­fle to the Goodwill amongst your dona­tion clothes. And there’s the search func­tion I want­ed to build into my And it has been proven to me to be exhaus­tion. Mine’s from a dif­fer­ent cause, but it is sleep you need.

  4. SEEE?. Arg.

  5. Hahaha…yes, I do see, you need as much sleep as I do.

  6. Dude. I do stuff like this ALL the time. Seriously. I want a PhD just so I can be called the absent-mind­ed pro­fes­sor!

  7. yeah, if it were just a mat­ter of age­ing, at least that would mean that there was once a point in your life when you com­mit those kinds of inani­ties.
    would that were true for me and my age­ing process

  8. Agreed. This kind of stuff is more accept­able when one is old­er. When we’re still in our twen­ties and aware that our minds are going, it’s much scari­er.

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