what happens when you miss your first espresso

I have spent the better part of the morning piecing together an agenda for a team meeting and surreally it reminded me of the television series 24. Clearly I am no Keiffer Sutherland because my “24 hours” would not enthrall anybody, I include myself on that list but I thought that since I am doing an agenda, I would give “reality TV” 24 a bit of a go, you will have to imagine hearing the silly the music and that even sillier typing sounds as the plot thickens.

08h00: Frothy typing sounds, time displayed in luminous green. Alarm 1, alarm 1 ignored. Alarm 2, alarm 2 ignored. Alarm 3, time check, alarm 3 ignored. Alarm 4, the final alarm, time check, sleep for another 10 minutes random thought, alarm ignored.

09h00: Camera pans to bed and abruptly stops at face. Still sleeping, frothy typing sounds, time displayed in luminous green, 09h10, I get up, find my specs, check the time, 09h13. Find the stereo, put on some music, make an espresso, log-on to the network, and check the runners on the promenade. Then a quick shower as you go to an ad break and a female voice announces that 24 will be back shortly. 09h45 dressed, typing and shaving (mulit-tasking, so take notes, look I said I wasn’t Keiffer Sutherland).

10h00: Cellphone number sounds, I am dialing into a conference call – “the leader hasn’t activated, please hold and press hash” (it’s legal). An aerial shot of the cars driving by and then the camera comes swooping in and abruptly stops at me as I am introducing myself and the call begins…

Phone is on speaker mode, so I can hear but it’s muted, I need another espresso, I am doing more email. THEN suddenly *6, somebody wants to know something from South Africa …s@%t! Adrenaline rush, “still here, just trying to unmute…”Frothy typing sounds, time in luminous green 10h43, I start the car and change the soundtrack, I am off to headquarters.

Reality big-bad-oil-and-gas “24” will continue at a later date. This morning I overslept, missed my first espresso and moodily went straight onto a conference call – aarh reality!