Sometimes I wonder about my sanity...

[hells_half_acre]

I called a friend at 5pm, got his answering machine, left a message, put my phone down right beside my computer, and then started working on the SPN/HP epic. An hour later, I look down at my phone and realize that I missed a call.

I never heard it ring. I didn't have headphones on. I didn't leave the room. I asked my sister if she heard my phone ring, and she said "yeah, twice! I was wondering why you didn't get it."

I do not understand what just happened.

Anyway, I called my friend back and I'm going out on Thursday with a long-lost friend that I haven't seen in 6 years! Wow. I can't wait. Last time I saw him we were two Canadians living in Germany...he was studying piano, and I was hopelessly in love with a mutual friend of ours that didn't love me back. Good times.

Now I'm going to go make dinner before I accidentally slip into another vortex.

 

Comments

[auriliawestlake.livejournal.com]

Ah, hell, amiga. You ain't the only one who's done shit like that. I've been known not to notice my phone ring when it's in my freakin' pocket (and it's got one hellacious vibrate on that sucker). And if I'm really groovin' on one of my stories, I have been known not to hear Mom ask me questions, not notice if the TV is on, and, on one notable occaision, not notice that the kitchen was on fire (shorted-out coffee pot) until I went to take a drink from my mug only to find it was dry. So, yeah...I can totally understand not hearing the phone. What's upsetting is the fact that very few other people will understand (unless they can similarly get so focused on their whatever that the rest of the world just sorta vanishes).

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Well! Good to know it's not just me! Seriously, usually I notice EVERYTHING that's going on around me. Though, I do know that I can't read ANYTHING and listen to someone talk at the same time, but I usually at least notice that someone is talking to me :-P

Though, this not-hearing the phone thing has got me wondering how I used to work on this story and do my job at the same time...maybe there's a reason my supervisor has been been getting increasingly annoyed with me over the past few months...hmm....

On a completely separate note...remember that deleted scene? I totally found a way to work it in. Yay me!

[auriliawestlake.livejournal.com]

Yay! \o/

[mara-snh.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I'm concentrating so hard on something while driving that when I get where I'm going, I don't even remember having driven, how I got there -- nada. Now *that's* scary.

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah...I've done that before. But I'd like to think if someone spoke to me or a phone rang (or a car honked) I would snap out of it! There's a name for it when you are driving though...driver hypnosis or something like that. It's why you aren't supposed to follow the same car on the highway for too long. Yay me, and remembering driving-school! :P

But I agree, spacing out behind the wheel is a lot more dangerous than spacing out while sitting at your computer!