In the dark

If you want to see how a vampire screeches when touched with garlic-infused holy water, you can turn on the lights while I trod around the house either late at night or very early in the morning. Ever since I was little and my mom had to drag me to kindergarten at 5am in the morning (literally drag, it was about a thirty min walk) I have developed this knack at getting some sort of ZZZ while still doing things with my eyes closed.

Fast forward twenty-three years later (OMFG?!?!?!? TWENTY-THREE?!) and I still have it in me. Like for example I can dress in pitch dark without opening my eyes when I have to leave the house at 550 am for some yoga classes. This of course leads to some accidents that get me heavy stares in the well-lit MRT only because my blouse is put on inside out. Or when a window reflection tells me that because i put on my hair clips in the dark I have a big strand of hair just hanging loosely when it should be tight.

In the past few days I had to be stuck in the lab at 10 pm because I had to call the US to make a hotel reservation (no, I couldn't do it online). The first night (tuesday) I stayed late only to realize that my calling card had no more cash on it so I had to stay yesterday evening in the lab as well. Now yesterday I also climbed during lunch with the team and unfortunately I wore shorts. I say unfortunately because the dust in the gym and my skin are very very good friends. I do not know how it happens but it is always me that the dust sticks to more- tried and tested, Sandra is nowhere near as dirty as I am when we finish climbing. I sometimes even have black rubbery smears on my face (my face!) as if I crimped with my teeth or something.

So last night I reached home at around 10:30 plus plus, which is way past my bedtime these days, and to protect the sleepy mojo I took a shower in the dark. Brushed my teeth and then jumped in bed for some well deserved ZZZ (still recovering from monday). Woe and behold what do my eyes see when I glance furtively towards my feet this morning? A big patch of blackish rubber+dust smear all over my left calf. I did not have time to shower again and thus I neatly covered it with a pair of jeans and scrubbed it out when I reached school. Definitely a habit i need to improve on.