And on your left you will see my life

Laylabean suggested keeping track of everything you do in one day and posting it. She thought Monday or Tuesday of this week would be good. I didn’t keep track of times like she did, so all my times are in -ish, but here’s a general run down. You get a tour of both days, starting with Sunday night.

Sunday
11:15pm – Get home, check and see how cold it really was outside (46) and decide that was cold enough for me to be shivering in the car on the drive home. Put some blankets on my bed and decide flannel pajama pants might not be a bad idea either. Brush my hair and my teeth (different brushes) and wash my face. Arrange pillows on my bed and pray. Then crawl under the covers with the book I’m reading at bed right now to help me relax – Trusting Jesus by Elder Holland.

Monday
Shortly after midnight – While I’m reading my nightly chapter, I keep thinking things that would’ve gone great with the conversation I had earlier in the evening, thinking of things I feel I should’ve already known but probably need to write down so I don’t forget them again. And, I keep thinking I need to talk to a friend of mine, right then, who has been having a hard time (Dad, the Spirit apparently does not go to bed at midnight).

12:21am – Decide if the Spirit is up, I should be, and in all likelyhood my friend is too. So I send her a quick text message. She was up. We text a bit and then I decide it would be easier to just push the call button.

2:20-ish – hang up the phone and crawl back into bed.

4:00am – alarm goes off, but I don’t hear it, just hit snooze.

4:15am – phone alarm goes off, because I knew I wouldn’t hear my alarm that early.

4:30am – get out of bed, find pants, find shoes, find a sweatshirt, eat a small bowl of cereal.

4:58am – Head out the door. It’s cold. The Big Dipper is so bright. The moon, the moon is absolutely gorgeous. It’s HUGE. It’s orange, and it drops below the horizon before the bus comes at just after 5:00am.

5:40am – get off the bus at campus and walk to the education building. Stand around in the cold watching some joggers and the Navy ROTC do their morning stretches. It was 39 degrees out then First 30 in a very long time.

6:20am – watch a guy finally unlock the education building and run up the stairs and start grading. I have 160 tests that need to be graded by 11:00am. I would’ve done them Saturday, but they were in my office, and while I have a key to my office, I do not have a key to the building, and the building is locked all weekend long (which I did not know till this weekend).

8:00am – finished grading the multiple choice and the true-false, suddenly crash as I start grading the one short answer. Decide not to give a student credit for suggesting something that is so very very wrong, and possibly illegal, as the answer to one of the questions. Hope that most of these kids decide not to be teachers after all and wonder how half of them got into college in the first place, let alone made it to a 300 level class.

10:15am – finish grading, email spreadsheet to professor and put tests in her box. Ask the secretary if it wouldn’t be possible for me to get access to the building and she gives me a key and a card saying I can get in just in case somebody asks me.

10:45am – get on bus to go back home.

11:30am – arrive back home and put back on pajamas. Eat some lunch. Check blogs. Check news headlines. Check status of homework for Tuesday. Change one more thing on my website for next week.

1:00pm – crash in bed

3:00pm – friend calls about our plans for the evening, wakes me up and I have to calm my heart back down. I pretend I’m awake on the phone and go back to sleep when she hangs up.

5:30pm – start waking up, wash face and put on some decent clothes.

6:15pm – put a load of colors in the washing machine.

6:30pm – friend comes, we go get my laundry and I hang it to dry.

7:00pm – go to Hancock and find fabric for the back of a quilt she is making. Go to JoAnns and find most of the fabric for a quilt she wants to make for herself. Go back to Hancock and get the rest of the fabric she needs for her quilt.

8:55pm – walk out of Hancock realizing we haven’t bought the batting we needed and decide to go to Wal-Mart to get that and the yarn she’ll need to tie it. Stop at the grocery store for snacks/dinner before going back to my place.

10:00pm – picnic on my living room floor and we talk

Tuesday
12:30am – friend goes home, I go to bed. Good chapter in Trusting Jesus, but no promptings to call anyone.

9:00am – wake up, put laundry away, make bed, shower, eat cereal, check blogs and headlines and sync my Palm and my jump drives so I’ll have all the files I’ll need today (except I synced the wrong one on one of them, but I make it work anyway) and plug in my battery charger since the batteries in my keyboard died last week. I should’ve plugged them in last week, but at least I’ll have them for class tomorrow.

12:00pm – catch bus to school

1:00pm – class, very interesting, what is this world coming to?

3:45pm – talk to mom about deal on plane tickets to Salt Lake. Buy tickets to Salt Lake and send itinerary to parents and Brett. I’ll tell Brett he’s taking me to the airport for that next time I see him.

4:15pm – stats class. Stats is so much better with Cammie.

6:00pm – go to the institute building across the street for Enrichment (yes, I’ve actually gone once in this ward now, but when they have it five minutes after I have class, across the street from where I have class, and it’s dinner, sure, I can make that). Cammie comes. We spread out our stats books on the end of one of the tables and keep working on the problems we have. 42D

8:00pm – leave Enrichment with Brett who gives me a ride home. We stop at Barnes & Noble so we can look something up in a book. I’m very proud of us for looking something up in a book rather than waiting till we get home and looking it up on the computer.

8:45pm – watch two episodes of season 2 of 24

10:45pm – check blogs, headlines, and start working on stats again. The take-home test is due by 4:15pm today.