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No matter how late I am to the worm party. After 2:00 pm, both speed and accuracy drop. What’s a mama bird to do? This morning, I choose to believe that there is enough for right now. It might help to know that scientific research actually backs up an age-old adage: Yes, the early bird really does get the worm Research by Simon Folkard (1975) revealed that that between 8:00 am and 2:00 pm is the best time of day to perform tasks relating to short-term memory and logical reasoning. My list of Things To Do reads like an epic novel, I can’t find my damn clipboard anywhere, and the last time I saw my whistle, it was rusty and half buried in the backyard along with my chipper morning greeting. I am 15 steps behind this morning, and that’s a generous assessment I’m probably more like 15,000 steps behind, but I’ve lost most of the steps so I’m down to the 15 I can find ’til I unearth more of them. Enough worms for all of us in the piles of grit and grime and gorgeous and gross. Enough worms for the 5:00 crowd and the 10:00 crowd. So you’ll pardon my glee, I think, as I stood barefoot on my gritty, sticky kitchen floor, staring bleary-eyed out the back window and a somewhat plump robin stumbled from her nest where her kids were squawking because their brother wasn’t giving them a turn on the Wii like he PROMISED and MOM! TELL HIM IT’S MY TURN! and, with bedhead and morning breath, pulled an enormous worm from the freshly-churned gopher pile right in the middle of the lawn. And then your family starves and dies because you suck. There’s ONE worm and, man, if you haven’t set your alarm for 5:00 AM (4:45 to be safe), jumped out of your nest in full-tilt flight and gotten a scrawny leg up on those lazy 5:01 birds, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO GET THE WORM.
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It’s just that I’ve been under the mistaken impression that there’s a scarcity of worms. You early birds are probably great, what with your proactivity and arriving on time and chipper morning greetings and clipboards and whistles and cheery smiles and “you betchas!” Look, I’ve heard my whole life that the Early Bird Catches the Worm. I’m in my bathrobe, but it’s my pretty one and I changed out of my pajamas to wear it - mostly because I was stepping into the shower when I realized I hadn’t had a cup of coffee yet this morning, and I have shower-taking standards, namely doing it caffeinated, so I STOPPED EVERYTHING and threw on my robe - which definitely counts as “dressed” due to the changed-out-of-my-pajamas factor. It’s 10:00 AM, and I just watched a late bird catch a worm.