November 14, 2017
Woke up at about 9 a.m. It was cold, and I was still tired, so I decided to stay in bed a little longer. Eventually couldn’t ignore the daylight anymore and had to get up, shower.
Had some time before I needed to leave, about an hour and a half. I logged on to one of my city-building games, fought with insufficient labor for a while. Decided to have lunch at about 11 am. I made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich: quick and dirty, but good enough for before work. I waited until about 11:30 before I left for work. While I wait, I check the headlines on my phone: an exercise in morbid curiosity I have been unable to shake.
Work is about a twenty-minute walk from my house. I usually walk the same couple of streets, without changing my path very often. It is nice to be in walking distance of a lot of places. It means I get a little bit of exercise, and a little time to reflect. Though, with it getting colder I may be cutting back on how often I do it. As is, I’ve taken to wearing a hat under my coat’s hood to cover my ears and brow. Still, it was a nice day out with no wind to speak of. Not much traffic to dodge either.
I made it to my building, and upstairs into the office, logged in. My mom is annoyed that I have my own work office with a door. I sit down for about 4 hours of work. A lot of it is checking emails, updating lists, doing odd tasks for my bosses. The quiet is nice, but I’m mostly by myself, getting instructions through email. Some days go quicker than others. Today was kind of slow, with none of the calls we expected to get happening while I’m there. I check headlines again, and click on a few articles. Trump, Sessions, Moore, and other officials of the administration consume a lot of my focus beyond my personal life. It’s hard to watch a lot of the political drama without feeling frustrated.
Work ends, and I walk home. The walk home is usually more anticipation of leisure or dinner than introspection. It feels faster, but also drags on longer than the walk to work. Sometimes I briefly shadow-box on my way home to amuse myself.
Cooked dinner for myself: my sister wasn’t home from her own job yet. I don’t quite know what I want, so I make Rice-a-roni (an old standby of mine). Tastes pretty good with Tostitos. I make it a little early so I can go over the reading for tonight’s class. It’s a discussion over a book, so I try to be prepared to contribute.
Class was sparse tonight. Only seven out of ten (nine?) students. Me and the other talker carried most of the discussion. Felt bad for the group of presenters in charge of leading the discussion. They did fine, but it felt like most of the class hadn’t read the book entirely.
Came home, and found my sister in her room. We exchanged barbs and taunts (it’s a wonderful relationship) and withdrew to our separate corners. I’m kind of tired and not really interested in doing much productive work tonight. I return to my city-builder for a few hours before calling it a night.