Okay, I know it’s boring, but for the record, here’s what happened today in my little world.
5:40 Alarm rings, hit snooze
5:50 Snooze again
6:20 Get up
6:22 Answer text message about accounting problem
6:23 Start computer, read email, star ones that need response today
6:30 Get in shower
6:40 Print scholarship letters on resume stationary
6:42 Wolf down bowl of cereal and a grapefruit
6:50 Put a sandwich together, pack food
6:55 Load backpack with books, food, and computer
6:58 On the road
7:12 Arrive on campus
7:14 Unlock bike, ride to north campus
7:24 Arrive at math building, look for Dr. Dumitrascu’s office
7:25 Find office at the end of the hall, locked
7:27 Sit on bench outside locked classroom with several other people
7:28 Pull out laptop, work on email, day’s schedule
7:40 Classroom doors unlocked
7:41 Sit down in math class
7:42 Approached by 3 people wanting help with homework
7:43 Stumped by math problem
7:44 Still stumped, my brain is not working this morning
7:50 Figure out the answer, go tell the people who wanted to know
7:52 Two more people want help
7:58 Professor walks in, turns lights on, we all wince
8:00 Pull out laptop, finish emails
8:04 Starting matrices, I pay attention because I have no earthly clue how to do this stuff
8:36 Pull out the laptop again, reply to two emails about craigslist stuff
8:40 Head out of class and hop on the bike for the ride down south
8:50 Lock up the bike, swap books in backpack with books from the car
8:52 Get first coffee of the day from Jazzman’s
8:54 Drop off scholarship letters at Dean’s Office
8:57 Walk into work, log into computer
8:58 Take first call from staff member who lost Outlook access
9:07 Head down the hall to set up a new student worker Outlook profile
9:09 Find out she is accessing the wrong server, get Damien to program new smart card
9:38 Move a thin client to move from the floor to a desktop
9:42 Under a desk untangling rat’s nest of wires
9:48 Getting hot under here
9:58 Clear profiles off another staff member computer to try to optimize it a bit
10:25 Back at desk, but not for long
10:27 Fire alarm goes off for annual fire drill
10:32 Everybody out of building so they let us back inside
10:47 Student comes in, lectern computer not working
10:48 Make it up to the fourth floor
10:49 Monitor not switched on, I like easy fixes
11:05 Stop by drinking fountain, refill water bottle
11:06 Download my free student copy of Microsoft Project and install it on laptop
11:12 Dig out granola bar and apple, finish cold coffee
11:28 Off to class
11:30 Furiously writing notes, this class is one the most intense I’ve ever taken
11:59 Finally a break, 30-second team project
12:00 Back into the lecture, deep stuff
12:20 Out of class
12:22 Sitting under a willow tree, wolfing down a sandwich and coke
12:33 Back to car for new books
12:36 In computer on fourth floor, logged in, doing email again
12:40 Class starts, I’m lost in this stuff
12:48 Still haven’t figured out how to make a new directory tree on my Redhat server
12:58 Got it, running through the rest of the project
1:40 Bored again, pull up Facebook
1:50 Skip out of class early, resolve to finish project tomorrow
1:52 Stop by Albert’s office to get accounting data for my internship project
1:53 Leave with Albert, because without Albert, there is no data
1:56 Swap books again at the car
1:57 Walk to math building
2:13 Arrive
2:14 Go to Dorin’s office, he’s actually in
2:14 Meet the guy I’ve been playing email tag with for weeks
2:32 Sit down beside a friend who’s watching a movie in mathlab
2:34 Pull out laptop, start entering my internship project dates and objectives in Project
2:35 First SI customer of the day
2:45 Joined by 2 other students with math questions
2:55 Full-blown session under way, and I have no answers
3:00 Delegate a student to go up and ask a list of questions to professor
3:06 She’s back way too soon, with answers that are impossibly simple
3:15 Still at it
3:45 Session officially over
3:46 A student has one more “quick” question
3:51 Take off for south campus at a bulky slog with 20 pound pack
4:06 Late for management class
4:07 Catch on pretty quick, the professor is very displeased by homework quality
5:00 Try to diligently take notes because of upcoming exam, fail
5:15 Pick up homework, another class done
5:16 Text Brittany to compare notes for accounting project
5:17 Meet Chris in hall, he doesn’t know where Brittany is
5:18 Brittany MIA, decide to grab some lunch from the Dub next door
5:20 Instruct a dour-faced kid how to make a falafel pita
5:22 Sit down, breathe a sigh of relief, and take the first bite
5:23 Brittany replies, where’re you at, weren’t we meeting at 5:15?
5:24 Stuff the pita back in the foil, and trot up to the third floor of business building
5:28 Realize I left my project in the car
5:32 Get correct books and case out of car
5:36 Back on third floor with saggy pita and warm pepsi
5:43 Papers all over the table
5:48 More classmates join in the fun
5:53 Go down to Cindy’s office to schedule classrooms for next week’s SI classes
5:54 Cindy is gone for the day
5:57 Back upstairs to the bean-counter group
6:14 Work on figuring out how in the world I am going to accomplish my accounting internship objectives
6:15 Entering dates and steps in Microsoft Project to form a visual plan of attack
6:32 Plan is starting to gel
6:42 Head over to Dub for Blue Key interviews
6:50 Fill out club application form, ask myself why I need more work
7:00 Interviews begin, find myself surrounded by nerds
8:00 Finally done, have no idea how I did, neither do I care
8:05 Back in business building, same crew still gathered around same papers
8:12 Guy from craigslist calls, wants to look at my bike, he’s outside now
8:15 Find him in the dark and show him my bike
8:17 He gives me the cash and rides off into the night
8:22 Back on the third floor, some classmates gone, others showing up
8:44 Wrap up project and answer a few more emails about math homework, I feel sorry for people
8:59 Jessica texts me, all in a panic about accounting project
9:01 Tell her that she just missed the party, but come on over, we aren’t leaving anytime soon
9:20 Starting to wrap up homework, have meetings planned from 5 ‘til 10 tomorrow, decide to call it a day today
9:41 Zip the backpack up
9:43 Get into car, turn up the heat, and head for home
9:59 Pull into the driveway
10:26 Print final aged trial balance report
10:30 Lights out