blue and brown books

It’s Wednesday, 2/6/08.

I woke up to my mom calling at 5:30am. She still can’t get the time zones right. After that I fell back asleep and when the alarm rang, I hit the snooze for almost the full hour.

I always have this problem of ‘the shower’ in the morning. It’s as if my entire day is spent trying to get around having one. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a clean guy. I like smelling nice, and being somewhat presentable, but for whatever reason it remains an insanely awkward part of my daily routine.

This also has to do with how I work so late in the afternoon. Working in an Insurance office for several years getting through my university degree, I’m used to getting up early for school and going to work afterward, or just plain getting up early and getting to work. I’m used to working, or being busy for 8+ hours a day. With my schedule as it is now, my busiest days are only 5 hours long, and there are only a handful of those in a month. The schedule of going to work around 3 or 4pm and getting home for about 8 or 9pm makes me lethargic and lazy. It totally messes up my daily flow, I don’t feel like I’ve worked a full day and I still don’t feel like I have enough time in the day to enjoy my time, or work on anything I’d like to. This is probably due to the fact that I’m slightly anal retentive and neurotic.

After playing chess with Lee and chatting with Jeannine on Skype, I ate my usual breakfast at Royal Host and studied Japanese until the last possible moment that I could have a shower and run to catch the bus to be at work early. I had taught my favourite classes of the whole month, came home and ate an anman and some inari and a can of kirin.

Jeannine has come online and we’re chatting. She can’t sleep, and isn’t adjusting well to the time-zone. If she would ever stop talking, I would watch the Totally Rad Show, the CBC National News and A few more episodes of The Wire.