Reason Behind the Madness

Yesterday one of my co-workers made a comment about how I am extremely consistent in getting to the office and being at my desk, even though, technically I could just as easily do my work from home and there really isn't the need to be AS prompt and predictable as I am. I actually have a reason for why I am as predictable as I am.... I want people to know where I am and to worry about me if they haven't seen or heard from me. A couple of examples:

My sister got married while I was in college and I went home, obviously, for the event. I left on probably Thursday and was planning on going back to school late on Sunday, but decided to skip classes on Monday and just come in later that day so that I'd have one more day to spend with the family that was in town. My mom even asked "shouldn't you call Kim (my roommate) and let her know that you won't be coming in until tomorrow?" I responded with "Nah, she won't care." Well, when I showed up on Monday, she gave me quite the tongue lashing as she actually WAS concerned and thought perhaps I was dead on the side of the road somewhere.

Flash-forward a couple of years to when I was working in an office, being very prompt, even early, every morning and people could rely that I would always be the first in the office. One Thursday evening, I went out and had an adult beverage or two so that when Friday morning alarm went off, I decided to turn it off and sleep in a bit, knowing that I would still be able to make it into the office just at the regular time. When I rolled into the office a couple of hours later than usual, my co-workers were all in a tizzy because they too were concerned that I hadn't shown up and they thought the worst.

Well, that got me to thinking....hmmm, if something were to happen to me who would know and when? For example, if I go missing on the Friday afternoon of Memorial Day weekend, nobody is going to even think about sending out a search party until Tuesday morning... Now, I'm pretty good at staying in touch with people pretty regularly and with Facebook updates, blogging, and BBM'ing I'm in some sort of contact with people all the time, so I'm not nearly as worried about disappearing. However, I still have that need to let people know where I'm going and what I'm doing.

Oh, and just in case, I have x-rays at the dentist office of my teeth, just in case somebody ever has to identify my remains... Is that a little too morbid on this fine Spring morning?