A day in the life of Jack

Today began like a lot of days have lately, I got out of bed thinking that I had slept in way too late when really it was only 10 AM. The only reason I was even worried about sleeping in was because I had made some plans to spend time with Savannah. It wasn't for sure though, so I tried not to get my hopes up too high. It's kind of impossible not to. I booted up the computer and got on facebook to talk to her. It's not my preferred method of communication but it's better than nothing. We chatted a little, made some lovey remarks. She told me how she had a migraine. I could tell she wasn't feeling her best, and it made me sad that I couldn't make her feel better. She was at her dads house, waiting to be picked up by her mother so they could go to her vintage clothing store. This made me feel a little better since her mothers store is only a few blocks away from my house and I could easily walk there to bring her back. I still tried to keep myself from getting my hopes up, and it's a good thing I did. We both found out that her mothers store isn't even open on mondays and that her mother was actually taking her to target. Savannah never plans things out, even if you tell her to. By now I'm a little used to this disappointment and I don't hold it against her. I like her the way she is. Barring these events, I had a pretty good day. After quite a bit of time spent doing nothing, I got a few texts from her explaining how we could for sure spend the day together tomorrow. I'm going to give her all of the warmth I have in my body. My mood is the best it's been all day and I'm beginning work on a short stop-motion movie.

A day in the life of Ben.

I woke up today at 6 in the morning and then set my alarm clock to go off at 6:10. I was in bed for 10 minutes enjoying myself and then the alarm clock rang again. I set the alarm clock for 6:20 and enjoyed it a bit more. Then when it rang again I finally got up and went to take a shower. I usually don’t take showers so early.

I went to school around 8:30 or so and my first class started at 8:45. My first class was English and nothing happened in it at all.

My second class of the day was chemistry and we had to do a lab. I was assigned with two girls and we had to burn things and watch as they burned, then make up random things about what happened when they burnt. One girl kept trying to work the Bunsen burner but couldn’t get it going. She did eventually, though. The flame was too big and I told her she would burn the test tube that was being burnt but she just did it anyways (I later checked and it was quite burnt.) Later we had to burn some ethanol in a dish and she played around with the dish of burning ethanol. I told her to be careful, and stop messing around with it. “Don’t be so scared, it’s just fire,” she said. I was about to tell her that it wasn’t so much the fire more that I didn’t want to break the dish, but then immediately after she said that she dropped the dish full of burning ethanol and it got all over the floor. I stared at the table for a bit after that.

The next class of the day was psychology and we had a substitute. Immediately before entering the class I had a friend leave the class, look at me, give a thumbs up, and state, “Best substitute ever.” He was a young black man who laughed at everything. It took us about 15 minutes to do the roll because he made all of us spell out our names. When he got to me I stuttered while saying the j in “Benjamin.” I am not good at speaking. He asked for my middle initial and I felt depressed for a second and then answered “E.” The rest of the time we did nothing. I studied for a history quiz.

Next was Algebra II, where we went over a test. I got a 93 A on it. I was supposed to have gotten an 85 B, but everyone else did very badly and I ended up getting a 93 A. He gave us back the tests to go over them. I spent the whole class drawing a map of Europe onto the test. At the end of class he asked to pick them back up. When I handed mine to him I told him, “I hope you like geography,” but he didn’t seem to care. The guy next to me laughed a lot. It was a great drawing.

My fifth class is US history. We had a quiz today on the civil war, and a lot of people did badly. I’m not sure what I got on it but it was probably pretty bad. Afterwards my teacher talked about how he thought Stonewall Jackson probably had Asperger’s. He talked about Sherman killing southerners and I laughed. Everyone looked at me for a second.

After fifth period I had lunch, where I sat around on the grass with Asians. I ate a sandwich and had some of a kid’s fries.

My sixth class of the day was engineering where I played tetris the entire time while looking out to see if the teacher was watching.

My seventh class of the day was Latin and it was extremely boring. We pointed out verbs and named their person and number. I felt like I was dying. It was really boring. It went by very slowly. Afterwards I told the redheaded Jew next to me that the class was only getting worse and more depressing as time went on.

I came home around 3:45 PM and upon arriving I ate a Clementine and played Europa Universalis III. I had pizza for dinner around 5:30.