March 2022 SOLC–Day 25
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Yesterday I had a hard time convincing myself to get out of bed (here). Here’s what happened today:
body: “Psst! I’m up! Let’s get going!”
……
(body stretches, wriggles, kicks the covers around a few times)
body: “Psst! Hey!! I’m awake!”
mind, groggily: “Huh? What?… Why are you up? “
body: “I dunno. But what took you so long? I’m awake. Let’s go!”
mind, confused: “I was having the weirdest dreams…”
body: “But now you’re awake…so c’mon!”
mind, slowly: “What time is it anyway? ….Wait! It’s 3:15 am!”
body: “So what? I’m up! It’s like you always say, ‘Rise and Shine!'”
mind: “But we can’t get up now. It’s too early. If we do, we’ll feel awful later.”
body: “Carpe diem! I’m awake! awake! Awake!! AWAKE!!!”
mind: “Ok, ok. Settle down. How about this? We’ll just lie here for a while and see what happens. If you can’t fall back asleep, we’ll get up. Just give it a try.”
body: “Oh, no. No. No. No. You know how that goes. It won’t be pretty!”
mind: “But we could sleep for another 1 1/2 hours! I need it! It’s been a tough week. Please!”
long pause
body: “Fine, I’ll try.”
body, sullenly, “But don’t say I didn’t warn you.”
……………
4:47 am…alarm rings
mind: “Oh, good! We got some more sleep!”
body: ….
mind: “Rise and shine!”
body, diving under the covers: “I don’t wanna…”
and so it begins again…
Nix the comfort zone 
That’s funny! Love the unexpected ending. Do all your fourth graders love to write? Didn’t think so. This kind of sentence play would get them on the bandwagon, I’m just saying. I know, I know. I am not the district’s curriculum coordinator and I’m quite happy with retirement, but is she/he dropping the ball on this one?
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Bwahahaha!
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This is me every morning, my brain fighting with my body to workout!! Love the story!
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I sure hope you get some down time this weekend to re-energize so you can get your mind and body back in synch! (I’m admiring your skill with dialogue–even without saying a lot, you convey a lot of meaning!)
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Hahahaha – oh, this is exactly right. I really hope you get to sleep this weekend, but at least you got a hilarious post out of your insomnia.
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Wait. Who took notes on the argument my brain and body were having?
I love this dialogue you’ve set up for us, and it’s just a reminder that the struggle is REAL. Thanks for a slice that made me smile!
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This is a perfect conversation between mind and body. And 3:15?!? Oh, my!
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