The past couple of days I have not been sure what to write. There’s no sense in pushing to write things as the things I will write when pushed will not have any purpose. I figure I ought to write every few days anyways. I can talk about my day and see where that leads me.
There is an upper shelf in my bedroom closet just above the hanging rack. My bedroom is a funny place, it’s clean but it’s cramped. My bed is sandwiched between the closet and a bookshelf behind it. Since I store clothes and books in my closet, I took the closet doors off so that I could access it without needing to move my bed. Beside my bed, next to the opposite wall, is storage shelving with an alarm clock and computer related storage drawers. There is just enough space to walk with my bed to the right and the storage shelves to the left to get to the far end of the bedroom. Here is where I keep my desk and computer and bass amplifier to the left, with a piano to the right and a large industrial shelving unit situated behind the piano. I make a lot of use of vertical space in this bedroom as it is so small. My cat has beds on every storage shelf, including above the hanging rack in my closet.
Which brings me to this morning. This morning, my cat acted as if he were going to leap a great distance to the top rack in the closet to sit in his basket. He does this all the time. There are also books on this top shelf. Today, he leapt up and knocked one of the books down on his way up. That is what woke me up today.
It was about 7:00-7:30. I got up and had breakfast and made coffee and did a bit of studying before school. I got to spend some of the morning with Possum as I usually do, which is always a highlight of my mornings. I don’t do a lot in the mornings, to be honest; I need my time to sit and think and get ready for the day. It’s nice to have company, though.
I walked to Metaphysics for 9:00. The professor of that class apparently had some association with Wilfrid Sellars, which I found interesting. He is an obviously very smart man and I’m glad to be taking the class with him, even though I’m a computer science major. I don’t think I’ve had many professors/teachers as intelligent and thought-provoking and good at their job as this guy.
Then I went to Operating Systems for 10:30. The professor there is not very good, but I did very well on the midterm earlier this week, I’m pretty sure. That felt nice. It can be a confusing class but it seems that I get it with a lot of studying put in.
I went home after and studied and ate lunch. At this point Possum was getting mentally ready for work, so we sat next to each other as we did our own things. I consider it fortunate to have found someone with whom I can sit in comfortable silence. Not a lot of people are like that. Eventually, it was 1:00, and I drove Possum to work. She’s only about a seven minute drive compared to a half hour bus trip, so I value saving her 23 minutes more than 14 of my minutes. Plus, I simply enjoy driving.
Driving is similar to walking. When you walk, the bilateral movement helps your head think, at least I’m told. I think when you’re driving and you’re watching the road, it hypnotizes you somewhat and helps your head to think. I used to drive about an hour into the city and an hour back when I worked at the engineering firm. I would listen to music the whole drive and sometimes wished it went on for longer.
I got back home and pretty shortly had to go to Economics class. It’s a Statistics for Economics class, so we were doing z and t hypothesis tests. I ended up going to a work colleagues house afterwards. We hadn’t actually hung out before, but he showed me the place and the things he was interested in. He sold me a plant type of byproduct, which was one of the reasons we had planned to meet. It was nice anyways, as I have few friends in this city.
I headed home afterwards and put things away and cleaned a bit. Then, I fixed the sheet music for one of my songs I was looking to play with my band. It took a while to do as it was originally for three guitars and keyboard and bass and drums and strings, but had to be condensed into two guitars, violin, bass, and drums. I’m pretty much done it now, just had to write out the tablature at the end of the song which is easy because I already have the sheet music done.
I picked up Possum at about 6:45 and we went home and I made us a dinner which was pulled pork with habanero spiced onions over rice. Then we went on a walk around the lake in the park behind our apartment and came back home and I showered and wrote this and that’s about it. Now it’s getting close to bedtime.
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