Wakeup

January 30, 2005

I fell asleep in my bunkbed around 1:30 AM. I had to be up and out the door to catch the 7:30 bus to school so I could work on a project. My alarm went off at 7:00.
I performed my usual routine for turning off the alarm clock. I hooked my feet around the edge of the mattress and leaned over the edge of the bed. Stretching, I touched the snooze button briefly.
I tried to pull myself back up onto the bed, but I found that my left arm was tangled in the blankets and I couldn’t use it to help pull myself back up. I was stuck hanging there for about 5 seconds. Then I felt the mattress start to shift. I had enough time to think “goddamit!” before I tumbled off the bed. I collided with my desk, scraping myself along the side and bruising my hip.
I wound up in a pile of pain on the floor with a mattress on top of me. I sat and winced for a bit, then got up, put the mattress back on the bed and went back to sleep for my 8 minute snooze.