When you have the day off from work and you get to sleep-in untill 7 AM instead of 6 AM — but you spring out of bed in a cold sweat just thinking about the homework you have to conquer.
And when you try to tackle your math HW — you realize your teacher didn’t explain very much, in fact, he just gave you a few broad strokes, so you spend 4 hours reading & doing practice problems in your text book, except that you still haven’t fully memorized all of your times tables making things extremely difficult, and that’s when you can’t tell if you are sweating from panic attacking or simply from menopausal hot flashes, and then you spend another 2 hours trying to figure out how to solve the questions on your quizzes because their due tomorrow, but after 6 hours of total torture you might be better off banging your head on the concrete floor because nothing is making sense.
So you take a cold shower, pull yourself together, highlight everything that’s confusing, pack up your stuff, and drive to your math tutors house — and that’s when things start clicking because someone is sitting next to you, and explaining things to you, and doing problems with you, on real paper, and you miraculously complete your math HW and your quizzes, and then you swear on everything holy you’re going to memorize your times tables over the weekend.
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You rush back home, eat a bowl of cereal, and log into your English class on Zoom when —your teacher announces this weeks assignment will entail reading about Doctor Oliver Sacks and writing a paper about him based on the information you were given because next weeks assignment is to watch the movie Awakenings with Robin Williams & Robert DeNiro since that movie was based upon the real Dr. Oliver Sacks and next week you’ll be writing a paper about the movie doing a comprehensive compare and contrast between the movie and reality…. And then you get really, really, really, excited, because you love the movie Awakenings since 1990, you’ve seen it 100 times, and you’ve always wanted to know more about the real doctor and now here’s your chance! And then you praise the Lord for one, fun, easy class this semester.
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Wash your face, put on your pajamas, call your mom, whip up a PB& J sandwich for dinner, scroll through Facebook, and smoke ONE very much needed and very well deserved Newport 100.
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You take 2 Advil, apply a heating pad to your lower back, congratulate yourself for a job well done, collapse on your sofa, and squeeze in an episode of The Real Housewives.
#Wednesday
