I'm on duty today. For those of you who have never experienced the life of an RA, being "on duty" means that I stay in my residence hall for a set period of time; during the week from 4:30pm-8:00am the next morning, and on the weekend from 4:30pm Friday - 8:00am Monday. That's correct, I do not leave the building for a solid 2 and 1/2 days. The reason for this compensated house-arrest is to make yourself available to any residents in the building that may need your assistance when they have locked themselves out of their room, are unable to remember how to do their laundry or cannot access the Internet. 2 of these 3 problems are easily solved. To fix the third problem, you have to be a wizard. So anyway, since UNA doesn't have class today, I began my duty day (ha ha) at 12pm today and I will finish it at 12pm tomorrow. I'm not going to lie to you, I was pretty nervous about it. I have a tendency to be dramatic...but since UNA took the threats seriously enough to cancel school, I may have taken the threats seriously enough to move my bed in front of my door last night so that no one could get in my room, but you'll never know that for sure. I could totally be making that up.
My original plan was to post a timeline of how my day has gone in relation to the threats. But alas, my body needed sleep and I didn't wake up until 12:54pm...Yeah, you read that right. 12:54pm; as in: the afternoon, as in: the middle of the day, as in: my mother never let me sleep this late when I lived at home. My point is, it's now 3:00pm and I am still in my pajamas. So, I want to take the time to give you 7 reasons to have a pajama day every once and a while.
1.) There may be a death threat out for one's college campus...what a better way to go out than in one's pajamas?
2.) Pajama days are great for catching up on rest. I didn't know I needed to sleep in until 1pm until I did it. Obviously, my body needed sleep. Duh.
3.) If one is usually quite the hard worker, a necessary pajama day once a month should be prescribed to you. Goodness knows I could benefit from that.
4.) On a pajama day, the possibility of being productive is still there. In fact, I have taken an online test, made a smoothie and thought about finishing my door decs.
5.) Quite possibly the most important reason to have a pajama day: There is no need whatsoever to shave one's legs. Why, you may ask? You have been in your pajamas for at least 12 hours; no one will want to touch you anyways.
6.) Pajama days are a perfect time to update one's iPhone to the latest iOS 8.0.2 software because it truly might take all day. Or at least 1 hour.
And finally...
7.) Pajama days remind you to take time to appreciate and reminisce the simpler things in life: a cup of coffee, birds chirping outside your window, old Lifetime movies and dial-up Internet.
If you know me at all, you know that I do not usually take the time to relax, so this post may have come as a shock to you. But, I think that being lazy once in a while allows you to appreciate the hard work you did yesterday and the hard work you'll do tomorrow. To perfectly sum up a pajama day, Jarod Kintz (an author whose work I have not yet read but might someday) said this: "Hoping to get a head start on the next day, I eat breakfast the night before. That way I can sleep in until two in the afternoon."
In all seriousness, if you're like me and you rarely allow yourself time to slow down and breathe and take time to enjoy your life and the life happening around you, then you should make time for it. Make time to relax. Make time to be with your friends. Make time to be with your family. Make time to be by yourself and do things that you love. Hard work is an attribute that is highly respected by many, but relaxation and self-love are attributes of happy, healthy people. Have a pajama day every once in a blue moon...you probably won't regret it.
Stay lazy (but not for too long...)
Hailey
P.S.--This sweatshirt would be perfect for the pajama days where I'm not actually on duty!
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