Mike B.
9:55am - snoozed my alarm
10:04am - Why does Apple set their snooze to a 9 minute timer? (I just looked it up and it’s not an Apple thing, just a holdover from when clocks had gears, my iPhone’s primordial tail or maybe its appendix). Woke up later than I wanted to today but it’s fine. I don’t have anywhere pressing to be today, just have to finish a few random tasks. The most important of which is that I have to return some equipment I borrowed from school and forgot to return last night (hope no one needed it).
11am - dropped my girlfriend off at work, then went to get us bagels and coffee. Neither of us are particularly great time managers so this is a common occurrence. The usual for her - Tofutti, cucumber, and red onion and an oat latte. I had the same but opted for hummus and black coffee to which I add a splash of oat milk to cool it down. Been on a big hummus kick lately. Shout out to Red Hook Coffee.
I brought her breakfast which she took back inside to her desk. I stopped to have a few bites of my bagel and a big sip of coffee which immediately scorched my entire mouth. In this moment, she calls and tells me she has my coffee which has just become abundantly clear.
12:22pm - drove to school and returned the stuff I borrowed overnight. I had noticed it there when I got home but it took me 15 minutes to find parking in my neighborhood last night and I wasn’t doing that again.
1:08pm - called to schedule a time to get my tire fixed. My back driver side tire has had a slow leak for two, maybe three months now and I haven’t gotten around to fixing it for one reason or another. Just been filling it up with air once a week or so. The place three blocks from my house can do it tomorrow and that’s good enough for me.
Also made my first dentist appointment in probably ten years. I’m not exactly scared of dentists but I’m not not scared. The longer I’ve waited, the more I’ve worried about being lectured or, even worse, having the confirmation that my mouth is all fucked up and I need expensive work done. I recently got dental insurance for the first time in years and it’s time to take my medicine on this one.
2:18pm - taking some time to relax. It is my day off after all. I’ll probably get to some tasks in a bit. Gotta finish up an article to meet my 9am deadline and take care of some laundry.
3:57pm - been making lunch for like an hour now while trying to get some work done. That’s what I get for forgetting to thaw the chicken that I wanted to eat I guess. Scheduled more appointments, generally getting my shit together a bit today.
4:18pm - fucked up lunch :/
5:27pm - finished my article, finished some laundry (even some that’s been sitting unfolded for like two weeks) and getting ready to pick up my girlfriend from work
6:08pm - we stopped by a friend’s house to borrow their karaoke machine. Gotta practice for the work holiday party in a few weeks *sunglasses emoji*
6:38pm - there’s a bunch of construction going on in my neighborhood so it’s harder than usual to find parking. Ended up taking me 20 minutes, not the longest I’ve ever looked around but not any kind of enjoyable. I wish I didn’t need a car.
8:45pm - making a late-ish dinner and preparing for my day tomorrow. I went back to school in the fall
10:00pm - new NYT Mini Crossword just dropped. I’m in a group chat with some friends and coworkers where we share our times and I lost to my GM by a second. It’s usually one of us or the other who has the best time. I’m getting better at sudoku. I can usually solve the easy puzzles in under 5 minutes now but like 2 months ago it took me at least 13-15 minutes. Numbers make me nervous.
10:44pm - getting into bed, doing more sudoku to keep me off my phone, thinking about the day ahead, looking at my phone anyway
Mike is a media production student at Temple, a freelance merch guy for bands and artists, a bartender, and a baseball writer for The Good Phight. You can read his work there if you’re so inclined and you can follow him on Twitter @_mikebecker and on IG @thisismikebeckersig. Otherwise, you could probably run into him at Herman’s Coffee or lure him into a comically large mousetrap with a margherita pie from Pitruco.
