Observation

Getting a call at 5:45 from the automated system, asking if my wife wants to work as a school district temp today, can seriously derange your morning.  Spending part of that morning,  after you've gone back to sleep, once your wife is gone,  listening again and again to a 2 minute news clip in French - and understanding almost none of it -- can make you think eh, maybe going back to bed wasn't such a bad idea.