Busy Tuesday

My alarm awoke me at 5:30am.
Now, at 6:13am, I sit at a Starbucks typing this slice
after ordering a Venti Honey Citris Mint tea.
At 7:00am, my phone alarm will chime.
I’ll leave to attend a 7:15am meeting at my school
as prep for the Tuesday afternoon’s 2:45pm meeting.
Then I’ll leave and drive to a 8:30am all-day meeting.
But I’ll leave at noontime to return to school.
The “Kwame and Mo Rescheduled Zoom” starts at 1pm.

A day of phone alarm chimes are set,
7:00am, 11:55am, 12:55pm, 2:45pm.
With a full-tank of gas in my car
and my own bodily tank refilled,
this teacher’s Tuesday will happen.

Time Well Spent

Stephen Cobert asked Kevin Hart to sell him on why to buy a watch.
Here’s the clip of this exchange during the Jan. 25th Late Night show.
The part about watches starts at the 1:35 minute mark.

I loved all that Kevin Hart says, how for him, a watch symbolizes a specific time well spent.
His last watch purchase, a Royal Oak from Audemars Piguet, was bought when he won the Mark Twain Award. He looks at it, not to know the current time. But instead, to recall that specific night of the Mark Twain Award, the night time was spent well, surrounded by family and friends who gathered to honor him.

As he spoke, I recalled how earlier in the same day, my mom told me about her black purse, which she was using on our trip to Richmond. She shared that a business contact of my father’s gave her a check for $100 in a card when her husband (my dad) died. She decided to use the whole gift to buy something for herself. She chose this sleek, expensive black Guess handbag. After telling me this, we both commented on exactly how old that purse is. She bought it just after my 25th birthday and just as my first daughter was born. I am now 60, Bridgit is 35 and my mom’s purse looks brand new. Looking at it now recalls all the time spent well during her years as a wife to to my dad and also, all the time spent well since.

Time Change

The microwave clock.
The stove clock.
The bedroom alarm clock.
The clock in the car.
All changed now except for the car….can’t recall how to adjust the digits.
I’ll look it up in the manuel later.

Not sure why we move the clocks back and forth.
May have made sense when we spent our lives outside farming.
But now, in a 24/7 kind of world
It seems more of a nuisance.

Yet, I shouldn’t complain.
I no longer have very many clocks in my life.
And my iPhone magically autocorrected for me.

 

Time

Day 1 – Friday but a Snow Day….plenty of time
Day 2 – Saturday…plenty of time
Day 3 – Sunday….plenty of time
Day 4 – it precipitated all night long but too warm so fell as rain so no Snow Day.
Looks like I’m teaching today.
So glad I set the alarm to go off 15 minutes earlier.

Time is a funny thing.
Same 24 hours every day.
Monday through Friday is filled with 8 hours of work, at least.
Then eating and sleeping time must be spent.
But somehow, when I really want to do something
I find the time to do it.