For Granted

Barely awake this morning, I put some drops in Paul's eye. Now that is not a wise thing to do as, surprisingly, I am not very coordinated when I wake up. No harm done to do the eye but I caution you - DO NOT try this at home. It requires immense concentration not to drop the little bottle or touch the eye in any way...
That being done, I decided I was awake (hey, no major catastrophe) and headed for the computer. Again, I never realized what fine motor skills are required to operate a mouse. At least I was awake enough to realize how uncertain my movements were. That is certainly the difference. Whereas I would merely fall asleep at my desk, this time I was on the ascending arc (!) trying to wake up and do difficult tasks (such as clicking the big button on the Hunger site and navigating to the other tabs all the while trying to remember which ones I had clicked already - I might have skipped one this morning).
Yet the difference remains - half-awake when waking up is scary because you are aware that you are half asleep; half-awake when falling asleep is scarier because though you are aware that you are half awake, you don't really care. So kids, only put things in eyes when fully awake (unless they are in someone else's eyes)...