I spend a large chunk of time listening to music at my desk at work (iTunes, Blip, 365 radio, Pandora, things like that) using headphones. Later on, after I'm bored/tired of noise/can't find anything I wanna listen to, I turn off whatever-it-is and keep on working in silence, but with the headphones still on. Not on purpose, mind you. I forget they're still on. Until I try to retrieve a pen from the floor or a book from the other end of the table and the headphones fly off my head as I go past the cord's limit, that is. Always the same thought goes through my head:
"Why was I still wearing those things?"
Anyone else? Or is my mind going?
And yes, I'm writing about this 'cause it just happened. Again. Almost clothes-lined myself trying to get at something in one of my drawers. Idiot.
4 comments:
I do this all the time. At work I used to leave for lunch wearing my headphones, the wire dangling down my neck. I'm afraid to tell you that your mind is not going, it is already gone.
Well, that's a relief. Don't have to worry about watching it go if it already left.
I do this all the time too, and I'm actually working on transcripts, making sure the text matches the audio. I mean, I haven't given up listening and forgotten they're there.
So you're clearly doing much better than I am.
I think that's a variant of looking for your glasses and you've got them on. notdotdot
Post a Comment