Yesterday morning I discovered I lost my car keys.
Since I live in the city and have street parking, I didn’t find out on a short walk to my driveway. I found out as I approached my car, parked a block or so away.
Crap!
I hustled back to my apartment as soon as I realized my mistake to see if I could find the car keys, or to get my spare. The rest of the keys were on the carabiner. Where were the car keys?
No sign of my normal set of keys so I grab the spare. I go back to my car, unlock it, sit in the driver’s seat. My Club steering wheel lock stares me in the face. I didn’t grab the spare for it.
Shit!!!
I texted the Chair of my Department to let them know I probably won’t make it to the faculty meeting on time as I speed walk back to my apartment yet again.
My next trip to the car resulted in success, though with a rather sweaty, stressed out me. I arrived at school 15 minutes late to the faculty meeting, but still on time as far as students go. Yesterday felt like a loooong day.
I imagine I’ll find my car keys underneath a piece of furniture at some point, knocked there by the cats after I accidentally unclipped the keys from my carabiner. Still haven’t found them though.
So today, I walk to my car to head to work. It’s parked a little closer this time. I unlock my trusty Club, turn the key in the ignition. Nothing happens.
I try again for funsies.
Nothing. Not even that clicking sound you sometimes get.
I checked my light switch. *Click, click*
Guess what? Someone left her lights on all day. Normally it beeps at me when I do that. Either it didn’t or I wasn’t paying attention. My battery was completely dead.
I knew by the time roadside assistance could come to jump my battery, I’d be really, really late. So I moved to get my classes covered for the day. I put in for a sub and texted my Dept. Chair. I know my colleagues ended up covering some of my classes. A substitute showed up in time for one of them. I’m grateful for their help.
After two mornings starting off like this, I felt like the universe was talking to me. Perhaps even yelling at me.
I took a personal day.
I was nearly there yesterday. Certainly if I didn’t have a backup key for the Club, I would have been stuck. I would have had to call someone to cut that off.
I don’t know how I truly feel about messages from the Universe. As a scientist, I know there’s not much reputable evidence around about such things.
But I’m not interested in writing a paper on this. I have my own personal experiences with unexplainable phenomena.
I’ve been feeling very tired and a bit grumpy lately. Out of sorts. I don’t quite know the source, but I have felt like I’ve needed a day off. Maybe I subconsciously self-sabotaged myself by losing my keys and leaving my lights on to push myself to do this. Or perhaps I’m having a short run of bad luck.
Or maybe the Universe took it off my hands and gave me a push to take care of myself.
Regardless, I took myself out to lunch today and I got caught up on some sleep. I’m still feeling a low level of anxiety, but it’s lessened a bit.