Keep Smiling!

Back when I was younger, I learned a cool trick. How to talk on the phone when you're asleep.

See, during the summer, both my parents worked so they would call home to make sure I was awake (heaven forbid a kid should sleep in, ya know *grin*). I learned to answer the phone and make myself SOUND awake and coherent, when I really wasnt. I could even sound darned cheery! *grin*

In college, I fine-tuned it so that I had some really grand phone conversations in the middle of the night... people would usually have to recap them for me the next day. I wouldnt remember a single word.

Last night after exhaustion had set in, my phone kept ringing. Sometimes I answered, sometimes I didnt. SOMEONE (*cough* U2Lorax) called me, babbling about IOWA ... my brain travelled away from the phone conversation on to it's own tangent thinking "Iowa? Why IOWA? Who the f*ck goes to IOWA? Iowa has cornfields... it's flat and plain ... people dont go TO Iowa ... they leave Iowa. Why does she care about Iowa?" apparently the whole time she's telling me why she's talking about IOWA. Ok, so she's really talking about IRELAND, but my brain couldnt travel that far while asleep. It hopped on the next flight and arrived in Dublin, took a look around at the Shamrock and realized "Oh! IRELAND! Much prettier here!"
I was laughing when I announced I was going back to bed. My brain had just had quite a trip.