Ever had one of those days?

You get woken up by an earthquake, you're late for work, your boss is pissed at you and then you go to the bathroom and your underpants are on backwards..

Well, that was yesterday for me. Inexplicable, really.

At 4:45am on Friday, July 20, I experienced an earthquake for the first time. 4.2 Magnitude; rather benign in the scheme of things, but slightly unnerving nonetheless. I woke up to my bed- which is on a wheeled bedframe- rolling back and forth about 10 inches. For illustrative purposes, imagine you're on a stretcher with probably sand-papery sheets and an unmarked individual is pushing you back and forth at a medium pace whispering sweet trembling noises into your ear.

My alarm clock was not due to go off until 6:56am (I only wake up to palindromes), however at 4:46am I was wide awake wondering if I was going to be the first person ever to achieve heart failure from a tremor under 4.5.

Not for lack of effort, I couldn't get back to sleep for the life of me.. Until 6:40am, when I fell into that really deep sleep that happens after you've been lying awake for hours and finally give up on actually trying to sleep. Predictably, 6:56am rolled around, and I was comatose. After exerting all inner-strenth to raise my arm and reset the alarm to 7:27, I steadied myself for 31 more minutes of deep sleep and weird dreams.. Which clearly didn't come, as I started thinking about falling asleep.

So, at 7:05 I stumbled down the hall and got in the shower where an Edge Shave Gel (33% more) canister fall on my foot from a perch high enough to hurt badly.

Then I dressed myself with my recently purchased some Nautica boxer briefs, which unorthodoxly have the tag in the front. finished dressing, got to work late, didn't get a project reviewed in time to insert into the booklet that is going out to the visiting east coast porfolio manager.. for shame. And finally, had a moment to myself at the urinal, and when I was looking for the "door" of my undergarments, I instead found no "door".

Long story short, Earthquakes freak me out, I'm not a great sleeper and I'm accustomed to the tag in the back.