Jan

8

Erasing all the cares in the way, and we feel at one again…

Filed Under Babbling, Homelife 

One update a day, at the least. I can’t promise that, but I’m definitely trying to keep up with it. We’ll see how it lasts.

I have a nice morning routine. Or at least, I think it’s nice.

First of all, my alarm goes off freaking early each day in consideration of what I have to do and where I have to be at what times. With all evening classes, I’m not home till 9ish or so each night, but I’m always up at 7:30/8 in the morning. So long 12 hour days for me, and then some when I get home.

My mornings are fairly nicely paced. I get up as mentioned above, iron clothes if need be, pack Sarah’s lunch, make her breakfast, walk her down to the car all before 9am. When I get back upstairs, I cook up a quick breakfast and turn on shows from my DVR from the night before: Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and The Colbert Report. Yes, I get all of my daily news from said slanted news sources. And because I know they’re slanted sources, well, I fill in the holes and I can laugh and enjoy my news and not feel like I’m being lectured by a Wolf Blitzer, Larry King, or Brian Williams. Well, I shouldn’t say Brian Williams, because I actually like him, but you get the drift. But, a new show has taken my interest too: American Gladiators. I watched that sucker last night. Fun little romp, I’ll have to keep up with it. That’s the advantage of the DVR: just record them and watch them when I have the minute or hour or few.

So when I’m done with the news and my breakfast has settled for that hour and a half of news, I take my memory/focus supplements and daily vitamins and all, and then find myself slacking behind a computer again with a CD or two. Today’s selection happens to be Stroke 9’s Rip It Off. An alright album, better than their last one. I just didn’t like The Last of the International Playboys, but that’s just me.

After all of this musical slacking, I’ll eventually get to the shower and head out. Depending on how early I leave for campus, I might bring my guitar with me if I know I don’t have much bookwork or reading or anything to do, just to be a bit more relaxed, and I’ll take an hour by the UCF Fountain, playing my heart out. I’ll miss that place when I graduate. Been doing that since August 2001 when I first came to UCF…

From there, I’ve got classes, and then a late night home when I’m out by 8:50. I don’t know if any of my teachers will plan on letting us go around 8:30, but a lot of late night classes, the teachers let students out a little early because they don’t want to be heading home so late themselves. I don’t really mind one way or the other. Then, it’s to the shuttle and home, or just a 40 minute walk home, if the weather is nice and I’m really feeling like the exercise and the rambling road.

And that wraps up a typical day for me. Sometimes I’ll meet people on campus for coffee, sometimes not. Sometimes I’ll not have classes, or I’ll have a class that begins a little earlier than 6pm, so I do less slacking before the shower, but somedays I don’t. So not bad all around, I guess. Its really a laid back life when I don’t have homework, but when I do? Yeah, not fun.

Then again, who ever really liked homework?

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    Thanks for stopping by, folks! My name is Adam J. Cohen, and I'm a guitarist/songwriter in Champaign, IL, recently relocated from Orlando, FL where I'm a UCF grad. Here, you'll find vignettes on my life, setlists from open mics and reviews, and whatever else crosses my mind. Enjoy!