Today’s Soundtrack: hundreds of miles/yeah, you cry like a baby…
Today I woke up with a to-do list in mind. Nothing special, just your average to-do list of a person trying to keep busy while she’s unemployed. There’s this essay I have to write, laundry that needs to be done, bills to be paid over the phone, and a million job postings to apply for. I’m exaggerating - the job postings are close to ten but after this dry spell I’ve been experiencing for weeks ten feels like a million. I only had four hours before I hightail it to the west end of trhe city. I have school tonight and I prefer to leave before afternoon rush invades the city streets. Like all good unfocused individuals, I got sidetracked. Season 1 DVD of Alias looked too good to pass up, and since we just revived our cable subscription I can’t stop watching useless TV.
I manage to get out of the house before 4 o’clock, I see the snow on my car and realize the drive might take longer than expected. On a good day, I can get to YorkU in 20 minutes; that’s without the traffic and without the snow. Since we’ve had promising spring-like weather for the past couple of days, I’m almost certain drivers will treat this like the first day of winter.
It takes me an hour to drive down, I arrive at my favourite Tim Horton’s right by my school and decide to work on that essay. Since I have absolutely nothing to do these days, I find it hard to prioritize my tasks. I keep postponing chores like these because I know I'll have lots of time. It’s too bad I’m becoming an expert in time-suckage.
I decide to stop working right before 6pm. I know of only one quasi-free parking lot at my school and after 6pm the night students become vultures of parking spots. I get in my car and my phone rings. My sister’s laughing on the other end. When I ask her why she called, she tells me my class is cancelled because my prof is sick. And won’t I have a great night off and an even better reading week?! Of course, that’s not the worst part. I get to spend another hour driving home in rush-hour traffic, and waste more gas I can hardly afford.
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Hey friend! Here's the comment you wanted me to leave! ;) Anyways, first things first...yay, you finally got cable!! LOL Now you can watch the shows that regular people watch...although I must say, the quality of a lot of TV shows has really gone down! What's going on?
*Sigh* I'd have to agree with you about driving at rush hour. It's even worse when the weather is bad. I've always hated driving, but it sucks that I'm forced to do it everyday now. Boo!
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