Today … was a bad day. I think I’ll bust out a timeline to shake things up:
- 1:00a| Fell asleep. Didn’t look over notes for fear that I wouldn’t be able to sleep.
- 6:15a| Wake. Take meds. Go back to bed.
- 7:00a| Wake. Get out of bed. Dress.
- 7:10a| At dining hall. POSITIVE: ate most of a bagel w/ cream cheese & strawberry yogurt with granola and fresh cranberries. 2 glasses of iced tea instead of coffee.
- 7:30-9:15a| Study. Cramming just isn’t a good idea.
- 9:15-10:05a| Sit in classroom and wait for exam to be administered. Review. Try to not let the people sniffling and shuffling get on my nerves. Fail a few times.
- 10:05-10:25a| Take exam. First done. Got confused on some important details. Feeling insecure.
- 10:35-10:50a| Sit outside next class and try to finish paper due by 1:00p
- 11:00-11:50a| Visual Culture class
- noon-12:30p| Get refund check from school. Open. It is $300 less than my account read. Have lunch. Vegan cabbage roll & veggie egg roll … and piece of cheese pizza w/ Wild Cherry Pepsi. Visit our college’s student money people. They tell me I’ve lost part of my MAP Grant. Leave before crying a little.
- 12:35-12:55p| Finish the paper. Hooray! E-mail’d.
- 1:05-1:50| Theatre History I tutorial. Rad prof, respect him madly. Though my excessive notes are “admirable,” I should “lighten up.” He shoots down my shoddy senior thesis topic…which means I have wasted a month. I cry. Awkward. At least he saved it now before I got backed up against a wall further.
- 1:50-2:15| Add color to one of my lady’s Valentine’s Day gifts: the first print I’ve made on a press! …get a significant amount of gold permanent marker on my Calvin Klein jacket. Emphasis: permanent. The print looks better.
- 2:15-3:30| Fuck my last class. Get ready for work.
Now, here’s the point where I repo my life. I consciously decide that when I go to work, I am not allowed to think of anything else except my job, in the moment. I will have a good work day. I will do the best I can. I will have fun. I will be grateful for my job. All I can say is: I was successful. My place of work strives to create a magical environment … I started thinking of things differently. I thought of myself as a hostess and my department as my house … it worked well. 🙂
My day went back to crappy after I left but that doesn’t matter. All I wanted you to know was that you can own your day if you choose; we’re not in a Greek tragedy. …or are we? 😉
-k
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