Genuis

No it's not a typo. It's sort of a one-word oxymoron.

Many years ago, I worked with a guy who, one particularly busy day, placed a hand-written sign on his door that said: Do Not Disturb. Genuis at Work.

It was one of the funniest, most ironic things I've ever seen. And to this day, the word genuis (pronounced jen-you-is) comes to mind when my actions or someone else's warrant it.

Yesterday, I had a genuis moment when I went to retrieve my cell phone from charging and realized that although I had connected the phone to the cord, I never plugged the cord into the wall. Hmmm, not charged up. Genuis.

The day before that, I was driving to the high school to run on the indoor (smelly) track to avoid the cold rain, and for some reason I treated a two-way stop like a four-way stop and nearly caused an accident. Dumb. Genuis.

Fortunately, I rarely have two genuis moments in a row like this. I think I will blame it on sleep deprivation due to watching lots of Olympics and American Idol. Yes, that's it.