Reflections on Ghost Office

Am I completely oblivious? Am I that unobservant? I'm sitting in my office right now totally astonished at what happened to me this morning. I really am at a loss.

So, I pull into campus this morning at my usual ten minutes late, and I walk into a dark and deserted office. Interesting, I thought. Well, I figured that there were probably so many people taking the day off (with tomorrow being the 4th and all) that I had beaten everyone else there that morning. So, I continued with my morning rituals. Made me some oatmeal...checked my email.

At about nine o'clock, I realized that I was still the only person in the office. Now, this is weird. I logged on to our campus's messenger service. There was no one logged on. On a campus of over a thousand staff, there was not a single person logged on to the messenger. Did I miss a freakin memo? Did the rapture happen?

I concluded that somehow I missed out on the knowledge that the entire campus would be closed not only on the 4th but today as well. Simply amazing. How did I miss this?!? Anyway, enough of this...I'm going to go home and go back to bed.