Optimism (jaclyn)

Ever have one of those remarkably bad days? Days so bad that you find yourself encountering misfortunes you didn’t so much as consider in your mental preparations.  I am a rather accomplished pessimist and I am very rarely surprised when bad things happen but this morning around 8am when I found myself covered in salsa I was a little shocked. I didn’t even try to do anything ambitious with the salsa; I just wanted the jar open. Then it got worse when I realized how little I have actually accomplished this long weekend relative to how much I must do before Monday. It is seeming like I am going to have to struggle through every moment of today, i.e., the graphing program that would make my life so much easier is mercifully still installed in my computer but my 30-day free trial has run out and I couldn’t buy a license if I wanted to because my weekly internet allowance ran out somewhere around last Wednesday. I just want to be asleep again. I find myself having dreams about end of semester when I just sleep all day. I am having dreams about sleeping, that is awfully pathetic. Anyways, it is 10 in the morning; this day does have potential for improvement. This day will improve and I will make it to the Kaki King show at the Corner Hotel tonight because Kaki King is the coolest of cool chicks and I would love to see her live. That was a vague attempt at optimism, by the way.

Hope everyone is coping if not flourishing…