co·nun·drum (pronunciation:) kuh-nuhn-druh m

  1. A riddle in which a fanciful question is answered by a pun.
  2. A paradoxical, insoluble, or difficult problem; a dilemma.

I have one.

Most people have a conundrum from time to time, and now I have one.

My paradoxical problem (big words, huh?) is relatively simple to resolve, but each answer returns me to the conundrum. Which is what a conundrum is, after all.

I’ve decided that there isn’t a real need to get up early in the morning. I have a whole day to accomplish what needs to be done, and tomorrow if I don’t get finished. Seems like good, sound logic, right?

I’ve also decided there’s no reason to go to bed just because it’s the traditional bedtime. There’s always something on the Discovery channel or one of the movie channels. And since there’s not a need to get up early, I can stay up later. That just seems to follow.

However, when I stay up late, I sleep in later, and don’t get up when I should because, as I said earlier, I have all day. And I can stay up later if I have to, because I can sleep later tomorrow.

But, getting up later tends to piss me off, because now I feel that I’ve wasted the whole day. It doesn’t help that I require two pots of coffee before I do anything except feed the dog.

So, despite the fact that I don’t want to go to bed at a “decent” time, because I’m a grownup and can decide on my own, the grownup in me says, “You should go to bed, so you can get up early tomorrow and not waste the whole day.”

Then I think, “but I have the whole day, so I can stay up a little later – just set the alarm clock so that I get up earlier.”

And there it is, you see – the conundrum is back. I don’t have to get up early, ’cause I have all day to do whatever it is I have to do. And who wants to get up early when they don’t really have to?

Conundrum, conundrum, conundrum

That’s a fun word, isn’t it?