A tisket...

The sunshine peeked through my blinds this morning and welcomed me to the new day. I scurried out of my warm burrow and meandered down the hall into a steamy, cleansing shower. I was ready for the day. I grabbed my trusty cup of joe and headed out, feet on the gravel, making my way towards the giant clock that for once, didn't scream at me to run. I entered my scholarly haven with minutes to spare and had time to converse and stimulate my foggish mind with a few of my university peers. The lecture began, and my professor improved my understanding of the four core points of meta-parenting. I was amazed at how quickly an hour had passed, and walked back a block and a half enjoying the sunshine, stopping to watch the kids at a local playground swinging, and mentally making a note of my day to come.

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My alarm squealed and shrieked at me every fifteen minutes this morning until I stopped pushing snooze. I fell out of my bed, yanked my shower caddy out of its dwelling, and padded down to the community showers half-awake. My eyes blasted open when I stepped into the bone-chilling rain of the shower and was forced to stand the miserable temperature for five minutes while dispelling the oil and shampoo from my tangled head of hair. I returned to my room to find the sun blinding me, and the clock screaming 8:30. In the twenty minutes I had left, I smeared my face with some foundation, vainly attempted to brush my hair, gave up and threw it on top of my head with a rubber band I found caught under my desk chair. Running with my bag thumping against my back, I crossed the street with two cars honking. My stomach growled reminding me that I had not fed it yet, and drops from my hair fell onto my t-shirt that I found in a pool next to the laundry basket. Safe enough. I ran into class as the seemingly elementary bell came to life which, to my dismay, brought my professor to life. Bored out of my mind for an hour and my hand cramping from note-taking, I was released back into the world. I answered some idiot's question regarding a class assignment that made me question the admission process of this university, and walked a block and a half back to my unmade bed which welcomed me in. As I drifted off to sleep, I tried to forget everything I had to do, and everything that had made its way into my brain that morning.