Walking Backwards

So, I have recently become obsessed with Twitter. Blame it on the fact that it gives me a way of breaking down my day in addition to elevating my mundane tasks into something worthy of documenting. I like it. But it does have it's short comings. I hate updating from my phone - it's a pain in the ass. I have to link to pictures instead of including them. Sometimes when I do upload from my phone, it take forever to update. Twitter still has a giant place in my heart, but I would like to use this entry to document what it missed of my day today. This is the record of my mundane life if Twitter made it easier for me to record it. I suppose it is good that it doesn't.

3:30 am - Woken by cat sitting on my chest, staring at me. Get up and let her out of the room.

6:15 am - Nicholas climbs into bed with me a signals that, yes, it is time to get up

6:30 am - Out of bed to make lunch, get myself and Nicholas dressed, scrambling to find everything that needs to go to school, load the car, out the door

7:15 am - Stop at Starbucks for coffee and to check on Niku who informs us she is sick :(. We make plans to catch up through email that I am just remembering.

7:30 am - Drop Nicholas off in cafeteria for morning assembly after taking photos of Nicholas by his classroom because half of our first day of school pics didn't turn out (I dressed him in the same clothes and I'm really hoping the family doesn't notice his hair has gotten longer)

7:45 am - Drive the back way to the allergy clinic and end up going the wrong direction on the highway. This is awesome in rush hour.

8:15 am - Get called back for my allergy shots, but only get a 340 on my peak flow test. Debate the nurse whether or not we should scale down my dosage. I win with the argument "I've been worse"

8:22 am - Arm starts hurting and itching, distracting me from my Latin translations. At the same time I scratch my arm the guy next to my drops a folder with a bunch of fifty dollar bills in it and scrambles to pick them up.

8:25 am - Trying to figure out whether or not this appositive is telling me anything about the subject of the sentence

8:45 am - Called back to do my peak flow again. This time I get a 370. WTF? Injecting allergens into my body makes me better. Decide to keep the Snoopy band-aids on because they are cool

9:05 am - Walk into my favorite thrift store for "color day". Today's color is purple. This is repeated over the PA ad nauseum

9:10 am - Find a small camera case to replace the one I made that was lost with my last camera.

9:12 am - "Tales from the Cryptkeeper" children's book? Oh yeah, that's coming home with me.

9:20 am - VHS tapes yield a few treasures - Tron, The Hobbit, and Who Framed Rodger Rabbit?

9:27 am - Could I pull off an orange sari with mirrored embroidery? Maybe, but probably not one three-times my size

9:40 am - Check out line is so short I end up buying a blue wig before I can think the better of it.

10 am - Pull into Central Market and repeat to myself - "You are here for lunch only, impulse buys are bad here!"

10:20 am - Get into weird debate with guy in the bulk section about whether or not "The Smurfs" cartoon was an attempt to indoctrinate young children into our misogynistic culture.

10:32 am - Go through line with lunch and water, seven dollars worth of caramels, a big bottle of Maudite, some tortilla chips, dish soap, coffee, and a pumpkin

10:40 am - Realize I am going to be late if I don't book it to Nicholas' school. That and I have to pee.

10:49 am - Drove by a Captain Planet stencil on a utility box. Awesome. Reminds me that I want to shoot some street art soon.

10:52 am - Drive by Uchi. Lament I'm not going there again until I get some work

10:53 am - M.I.A on the radio. Yay!

10:55 am - Run into Nicholas' school in the hopes that I can get to the bathroom before they are released for lunch

10:58 am - Am surprised by the relative quiet of the school. Nicholas' teacher informs me that they don't have lunch until 11:30.

11:02 am - Wondering what I should do

11:04 am - Return to car to try on blue wig and car dance

11:18 am - Call Tara and finalize plans for going out tomorrow evening and find out we're going to LaLa's, the best dive bar ever.

11:20 am - Call and leave a message with my academic adviser asking him to email me about a field school opportunity and inquiring into any winter break field schools

11:23 am - Walk back into school and sit on the bench by Nicholas' class and wait

11:32 am - Nicholas' class walks out and I get in line with the five year-olds. I get really nervous that the teacher will hear Nicholas and I talking.


So that is half of my day. The remaining was difficult to record with all of the small children clamoring for help cutting and pasting and opening juice box straws. But that was most of the day - all the wonderful, banal aspects of it :)