6:30am: Alarm goes off--David wakes up and begins to blearily think about stuff.
6:35am: Alarm goes off again and David turns it off. he continues to meditate on whatever comes to mind.
6:38 David rolls over and reaches for the lamp he thumbtacked to his wall a month ago, turning it on. After rubbing the sleep from his eyes and retrieving his cellphone from the camera case also thumbtacked to his wall near his bed, he reaches for his dearly beloved Bible. A few months ago David realized that his Bible is his most valued possession, as he has been annotating and bracketizing in it for the last... seven years now. He has learned not to use yellow highlighter, as 5 or 6 years after use one can hardly see the ink. David uses pen to underline, bracketize, double bracketize, triple bracketize, quadruple bracketize, (see for example portions of psalm 139) and annotate. Seven years of personal annotation is invaluable to David... No other Bible could replace it.
6:39 David opens to psalms, reads a few, remembers he wants to read Ecclesiastes again, reads Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon, smiles a lot.
7:20ish David finishes Song of Solomon, closes his Bible and takes out his prayer journal. He determines with regret that he will have to be brief.
7:45 David gets up, decides he is going to go to college in tennis shoes, shorts and t-shirt instead of his standard loafers, jeans and polo, gets dressed, lets the Dogs out, feeds the dogs, and eats two bowls of cereal.
7:59 David's last bite of cereal is interrupted blissfully by the chicken dance. David talks to Kristina for nine minutes, one second while she drives to school. Meanwhile, he brushes his teeth and manages the coalescence of all his academic material.
8:08 David finds a general and complete lackage of lunch meat, and fixes himself a peanut butter sandwich. he also fills his water bottle thingy.
8:14 David says cya to his brother, who asks if he is in a happy mood...
"no... not particularly...well, why not? sure!"
Yes, David decides, he is in a particularly happy mood.
8:15 David places his backpack in the back seat and begins his drive to Towson, listening to Shine FM the whole way to Towson Town Center parking Garage (except for when he calls Carl Otter at 8:18 and Colin Daniels at 8:37).
9:16 David arrives at Towson Town Center and parks his car. He then walks and jogs 3/4 a mile to Towson University.
9:31 David walks into Literary Research and Applied Criticism one minute late only to find half the class and the professor are not there yet. It was an interesting class... Dr Hahn examines Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" Sylvia Plath's "Daddy." David spent most of the class looking out the window, though Hahn did reveal to him some things that he hadn't noticed before. Over the years, David has now had Browning's poem in 3 classes and Plath's in 4. Yay for being an English major.
10:45 David flees the premises and heads toward the computer lab. He checks facebook, e-mail, and Blogger, and then sits in front of an empty post window for a while wondering what to write and staring out the window at the construction that has been going on for a few years. He then gets the random urge to blog about his day, starting when the alarm went off. He proceeds to write and does not stop until
12:15 A lab attendant comes up and taps David on the shoulder.
"We are going to be closing for a class at 12:30"
"Ok"
David's class has a test then anyways.
12:28 David finishes typing "8:15 David places his backpack in the back seat and begins his drive to Towson, listening to Shine FM the whole way to Towson Town Center parking Garage," saves the blog as a draft, and heads to class.
12:40 The professor of David's Caribbean Lit/capstone class (who is chronically late due to still being on what she refers to as "island time") walks in the room and suggests holding class outside. The class troops out to sit on the grass and have their legs fall asleep on them while discussing Prospero, Caliban, and Colonialism in Shakespeare's
The Tempest. (Shakespeare plays are like ladybugs... they will be found in any and every English class). David's class gets their tests back. David had been nervous about the test because he had not studied well. This is usually the case. The result: he got a 96, but after noticing that he had lost only three points, got it bumped up to a 97. Sigh.
1:45 David stretches out his legs and heads back to the computer lab, determined to finish his blog. He checks facebook, chats some with Sarah and Emma, and continues to work on the blog.
2:33 David has been cognizant for quite some time that this thing he is writing is a long blog, and may perhaps prove tedious to read. He repents for causing anyone tedium, and begins to apologize in third person. He cannot refrain from posting this product of so much writing, but has decided to put a disclaimer in the title.
2:38 David decides to call it quits.
2:39 David is trying to find an effective ending for his blog entry.
2:40 He could resort to something really lame, like "hoped you liked it," or "enjoy?" or "til' next time"
2:41 But he doesn't want to do that.
2:46 Did you know? "A micronation is an invented country, not recognized by any other. One of the most interesting is the Principality of Sealand, on an ocean platform off the coast of England. They’ve got their own currency, stamps and passports, and have argued their right for sovereignty (and lost) several times in court."
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