saturday january 31

today i went with another edition of "another thing i did on these days."

sunday january 25
today i caught a bus at the kipling subway station to ride out near the airport, in order to meet my mother for dinner. when i was coming up to my stop, an altercation broke out between a talkative, rambling passenger and the driver. "cut that shit out," the passenger explained. "you know what i'm talking about." no one knew what he was talking about, though he seemed to be referring to the way the driver was driving, and kept loudly requesting him to "cut that shit out." finally, the driver turned around and began giving it back, telling him to sit down and relax; this advice went unheeded. as i got off at my stop, the argument had escalated to the point where each man was yelling at the other that he "wasn't afraid" of him, with the passenger insisting the driver could call "the ttc police, the metro police, even the ARMY" and he still wouldn't be intimidated. the only way i could've possibly been happier to leave a bus is if i'd been caught on the one in speed.

monday january 26
today i noticed that our house's internet had stopped working. the router is in my roommate's room on the floor below, so i started heading down there to see if i could do anything to fix it. as i walked down the stairs, i heard her arrive home. she had just come a funeral, and was all dressed in black, so it seemed an inappropriate time to immediately ask about the status of the internet. i waited until she found out on her own that it wasn't working.

tuesday january 27
today i laid down for a nap in the late afternoon, and set my alarm for 6:10. when it woke me up, i became convinced that it was actually 6:10 am on wednesday morning, since that's the exact same time that i wake up on wednesdays in order to get ready in time for my 8:00 am class. it wasn't until i got up and started walking across my room that i heard the sounds of my roommates downstairs and remembered that i'd just been napping for an hour. i was so relieved that it wasn't 6 am that i went back to bed for another hour, and woke up at 7 pm with little confusion.

wednesday january 28
today i listened to the assignments of multiple classmates in my announcing class, where the rest of the class was responsible for critiquing the good and the bad of their recorded performances. when one classmate's assignment played, the room came to the consensus that he'd only had trouble with two or three pronunciations -- no one noted, however, that all revolved around the letter g!! at this point, i was struck with the urge to throw up my hand and point this out, finishing by exclaiming that "it ain't nuthin' but a g thang." i ultimately chickened out, however, convincing myself that since i hadn't yet spoken in class, this would hardly be an appropriate first observation to make.