I accidentally feel asleep at my desk at work. By the time I woke up, my boss had gone home for the day but had taken down the cubicle walls so that everyone else could see me sleeping at my desk. He also left a note saying that if I wanted my computer back – it was sitting in the VP’s office. When I went to get my computer, it was not the skinny greek man I was expecting to be sitting there in his office. It was my high school basketball coach (a big, tall black man). I still called him JP, though. When I asked for my computer back he told me that I would have to tell him a nursery rhyme first. I was surprised at the request but quickly rattled off the story of the tortoise and the hare. Once I had my office back in place, I ran out of the office to head home for the day. Problem was: I wasn’t in Texas anymore – rather in Bulgaria. As I was walking to catch the underground metro like I usually took home in Bulgaria, a teenager and his girlfriend walked by. I turned my head to avert my face from the cigarette smoke, but when the young man saw me do that – he spit not only the smoke into my face. So I turned the other way and ran as fast as I could to catch the bus home instead of the metro. When I made it to the stop, I jumped on the first bus that pulled up. But since I was too busy worrying that the teen gang was following me – I failed to see that I got on #33 rather that #37. Now I had to figure out what stop to get off and what other bus I’d need to catch home. But as we were traveling through the city, I suddenly realized that it must have rained ALOT while I was at work. There was water everywhere. In fact, I think that the city was flooding. When we went across this one street, it was like we were crossing a river on the ‘Ride the Ducks’ tour in Branson and the windows of the bus were open allowing the water to splash inside all over me. So instead of focusing on the bus route map in my hands, I finally looked up to gauge what was going on with the driver and if we were going to drown in the bus. Turns out, when I looked up I saw these huge, funny looking rocks in the water a little ways away from us. I was confused, so I looked closer and realized – those are NOT rocks. They are huge, scary water beasts that look like a cross between a gorilla and a whale. Before I could blink, one was coming out of it’s disguise as rock and started chasing after the bus. His eyes were bulging out of his head and I felt like he was staring right at me. He kept getting closer and closer as I was screaming at the bus driver to go faster! Just when the gorilla water beast was about to pull me by the hair and drag me out of the bus kicking and screaming…I woke up.

That’s how my Tuesday morning started.