I am midly sick, with a sore throat that prevents me from getting decent sleep. I had to get up early today to go to work before my classes, because my boss is out of town. Of course, as is the rule, everything decides to break itself when he is out of town and I’m the only one that can fix everything.
After an hour and a half at work, I headed for a long day of school. Luckily I caught a break; my religion class in the middle of the day was cancelled. When I got to the physics lounge in the morning to eat my donut and coffee breakfast (thanks, UDF) my friends in there had some sort of strange game. It had four silver handles connected to a base by cords. You held onto the handle and watched a little flashing red light in the center. As soon as the light turned green, you had to hit the button your handle; if another player hit it first, the handle would give you quite a shock. It was really amusing.
My music class was hideously boring as usual, but after that I went to get some lunch, and then I sat outside while I ate and did homework. Xavier is beautiful in the spring. After music I head to my favorite class ever, Cryptology. I really enjoy that class. We have learned some absolutely beautiful number theory in there, and I can’t wait to learn more in my class in the fall. I finished classes at 4 and then headed off to work. I think I recieved a total of 10 phone calls and 20 emails over the course of the day, so I knew I’d have a lot to answer to when I got there. There was the usual litany of simple ‘fix it please’ requests, a few needy sales guys and then a pernicious issue or two. I’m typing this while I’m on hold with Verizon Technical support trying to get a phone set up. Soon I will go home and have chinese food for dinner. Yum.
So it’s been a long day, and I’m really tired. The thing is, though, I feel great. Ever since I broke up with Megan and started living my own life as I wanted to, my outlook on life has improved markedly. I can have a crappy day and have everything be no good, but I still smile because I’m living the life I want to live, and it feels great.