Reflection: Typical day

No one can say that any one day is typical. Different seasons call for different activities with different people. Since I cannot define what constitutes as a typical day for me, I will simply talk about what I did yesterday, May 12, 2015

Yesterday, I woke up and went to Peet’s. I need my caffeine in form of coffee, or a mocha, in the morning. Somehow the system didn’t take my order but when Evan (manager) saw me he started making my mocha ASAP. He also gave me a free drink card so like a gazillion win points I think. Then I went to school. First period Government with Pugh. I took a test I had missed and we finished our mock congress. Second period AP Spanish with Esquivel. We had a free period because everyone was out for AP testing. So I watched House with Angela. Tutorial. I forgot about it, but decided to go to Bale/ Wen because all my friends were testing, and no one would be in his classroom (AP Government test that day). I pretty much talked to them both for all of tutorial. It was fun. Third period, AP Calculus AB with Kraemer. we just worked on FRQs in our table groups. Brunch. I talked with Makenzie, Rebecca and Shashank for a bit. Fourth period Euro Lit with Ene, this class. We took a quiz on Black Swan Green and then worked on this project for a bit. Fifth Period AP Biology. We finished watching the movie Outbreak. Spoiler Alert. They live.

Now normally I have a lot more work in classes but since it’s after AP testing for all my AP classes, and I’ve taken the final for Biology, there isn’t much to do. I feel like the teachers understand that us seniors are so very much done with school and would much rather just not be here. So classwork and homework have both lightened up. After school I went home and drank the Jamba Juice my sister got for me the day before. I changed into clothes for Powderpuff and then started reading Black Swan Green, chapter 4, my only homework. When it was time to go, (1:45) I picked up Amy and then we went to powderpuff practice.

We were early, as usual, but still ready. Only about 11ish people showed up, not including coaches. We worked on plays and offense as well as defense. We also decided we wanted to get armbands so we can know the plays more easily. So Rohan put Rebecca and I in charge of that. So we decided to head to Michael’s after practice to see what we could use. We wandered the store a couple times, trying to come up with ideas. Then, funnily enough, we ran into Ryan once we finally found the Velcro. He told us we could just ask the coach to use the actual armbands from the football team. So we stopped looking, but we had gathered stuff we were going to buy anyways. We got a fake flower for Rebecca’s corsage so it wouldn’t die. She also wanted Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Duck tape that I found for her. We also decided to get bags and tissue paper to make gifts for the coaches to thank them. We got the most pink and girly ones we could find. The pink bag also had butterflies. And I got a Captain America Pez dispenser. Because why not.

I then dropped Rebecca back off at school and called Alex from the car. We were going to hang out. The time at this point was about 5 ish. Practice ended at about 4? Anyways. I stopped at Alex’s and then went in and ate an ice cream cookie sandwich thing. Then we drove back to my house and no one was home yet. I made her help me a little with my lit final project, like coming up with Top Tens and such. Then we ate dinner there, which was pork and potatoes. But by the end of dinner, I had had enough of my family so we hid in the playroom and watched How I Met Your Mother.

Let me explain the family thing a bit. Laurie has been driving me absolutely insane for months and so she does stuff like eavesdrop on Alex and my conversations and then jumps in and demands that I explain. She only heard half of what we were saying and just assumes she knows what we are talking about. But when I tried to call her out on it, she started to lecture me about how she wasn’t eavesdropping; she had only “overheard from the next room”. The definition is “to listen secretly to what other people are doing” and I didn’t know she was listening. She was eavesdropping. I hate how she cannot possibly admit how she might be doing something wrong. Nothing can possibly be contrary to how she says it is. Also, my dad decided that once I got up from dinner and went back to the kitchen with Alex, I had to drop everything I was doing to go test the pool even though I was still working on my final project and he was just sitting there.

    So we hid out in the playroom and watched hours of How I Met Your Mother. At around 11 something we stopped. Then we put stickers on my laptop and THEN she went home and we went to bed. End day.

    So this “typical day” had both good parts and bad parts. I enjoyed the good parts and tried to not remember the bad ones. That is how I can look at all my days as happy. Though sometimes if there are just so many bad parts in the day, it completely overwhelms the good, I can call those bad days. I don’t have many of them though.