An Interesting Day

 Today I was inspired by a man who undertakes, every January, to write a comic every hour that he is awake. I decided to write a brief Haiku for every hour that I am awake. I got to two haikus. I stopped because they were too short and I couldn't convey everything I wanted in them. I had no less than three haiku-worthy things happen to be in the first hour, after I'd already written that hour's haiku, and then the next hour I was stuck in a boring class. So I decided instead to just write about them.

In the dining hall they were serving shrimp and grits, but I am what I call a "mostly-tarian." That is, I'm mostly vegetarian. I try not to choose meat if it's my choice, and I don't buy it at the store, but if someone makes it for me or if it's free I'll generally go for it. And I almost always go for seafood. But I've had a pretty clean record lately of eating no meat, so I took a pass on the shrimp and grits, which looked delicious, and then got depressed over how much my lunch of rice, edamame, zucchini and an apple sucked.

At the bus stop some asshole had peeled an orange and thrown the peels into a flowerbed. Yes, I know it's biodegradable, but this is an urban campus, not the backwoods of Vermont; it's still litter! So I picked up the orange peels and threw them away. This may not sound like much to you, but I did it in front of a bus-stop crowd and I was proud of it!

Once I got to the building where my class is, it had begun to rain lightly. Outside of the recessed front door there are two benches, and a book was sitting on one of them. It was getting rained on. I picked it up, knocked the water off of it, and leaned it against the wall under the archway, only a few feet away, so it would stay dry. I did it all without breaking stride, and I felt good about this too! When I came back out it was gone. You're welcome, stranger.

The remainder of my afternoon was the sort of monotony you'd expect, and it was this that inspired the surrender of my little project. There's only so many haikus you can write about entering item numbers onto a spreadsheet. I would have needed four.

In other news, I wrote my will and living will. Hooray preparedness.