It's been awhile, hasn't it?
Today hasn't been a good day, in fact it's been a pretty crappy day. There was nothing huge that made it bad, no catastrophe.
But
just like it can be the little things that make you happiest, today has
been a collection of little bad things that have just conglomerated to
make this a pretty shitty day.
This post will be a self-serving one. I need to get this stuff off my chest, lest I break down.
I
awoke this morning feeling exceedingly tired. I had had a long night
the previous day filled with an emotional discussion. The details are
irrelevant for the purpose of this post, but I had been crying and so
now my eyes were dry and itchy.
I am also still in the process of
recovering from the flu that I had over the weekend. This made it so I
got almost no homework done over those few days because I was too busy
being sick.
I have forgotten to put in my bite plate as well, so
my jaw hurt (side note: I clench my jaw in my sleep, and even when I
remember to wear the bite plate, but jaw is usually in pain -fun stuff,
right?)
I had an 8:30 class, a history class, a history class that
I hate. (A stupid amount of readings, bizarre assignments, a
pretentious prof, the perfect recipe for an unjoyable class).
I had overslept so I didn't have time to eat breakfast.
My carpool came late.
I was now late for class -only by a few minutes, but my prof is extremely strict about being late.
It
was freezing cold outside, so I had to run through the tunnels of the
University, which wrap around in a giant U shape. I started in one end
and had to make it to the other -moving quickly was important, but my
feet hurt from constantly wearing winter boots.
I got through my
dreadful class and am off to my American Literature class, one of my
favourite classes with one of classes. Things are looking up. Or so
you'd think.
I get to class and realise I had done the wrong
reading assignment (great), now I'm lost and trying to muddle my way
through Emerson, something that I would have struggled with even if I
had done the readings.
I'm now done classes for the day and can head home, it's 11:15, my bus comes at 11:50.
I
kill time by doing some of my reading assignments for my history class
(I feel extremely far behind in these because they're so complicated I
can hardly understand them even after reading them multiple times. This
is a first year class, there is probably an issue when a third year
honours English student can't understand your reading assignments, but I
digress).
I head out for my bus about 5 minutes before it is supposed to show up.
The second I step outside I see a bus pulling away. I can only assume it is my bus at this point because my bus never came.
I
am now forced to wait an additional half-hour to take a bus and get
home. Keep in mind that I haven't eaten anything yet today.
I get
home and have lunch and take a quick nap so I'll be awake enough to do
my homework (did I mention I have a paper due in my history class on
Thursday that was assigned last week?)
Suddenly I get a phone class from work. Turns out I was supposed to work today but it wasn't clearly marked on my schedule.
I
was now late for a shift I didn't know I had, my entire evening is now
gone and I don't have time to work on my homework, and this was the one
night that I had to get homework done because I worked last night and I
work tomorrow.
That is my very long list of little things that have shaped up to make this a truly un-fun day.
