Just Woke Up Guy

I was talking to my old boss a couple of weeks ago about the usefulness (or lack thereof) of a meeting we had scheduled first thing in the morning. During this coversation, I brought up precisely how whip-smart our team could be when we're all stumbling in, uncaffeinated, and without having even checked our e-mail from the night before.

"Yeah," said my old boss to me, "you definitely have a morning persona."

That -a on the end is important. I'm not a morning person; I have a morning persona. I have taken to calling this aspect of mine "Just Woke Up Guy", and he fumbles around the halls spilling things, tripping over his own words, and makking tyops[1] all over the place until about 11 AM.

One of the side effects of being in full-on Just Woke Up Guy mode is that he easily misreads things. Here's an excerpt of an e-mail I received in my inbox this morning:

"A few months ago, we set out to address feedback from our peer groups and to begin a maturation process...."

You know I didn't correctly parse the word "maturation" before my first cup of coffee.

[1] I even failed at intentionally misspelling "typos" the first time through, too.