A Day in the Life

Each day brings me one day closer to Transfer Orientation at Cornell. Almost none of my daily activities center around that anticipated event, except that I wouldn't be at TC3 if I weren't trying to make the admissions office happy. Each day, however, is part of the journey; so, here is what the last day or so has been like.

This semester I am living with a family that I babysit for. Jason and Rebecca are the parents; Aspen, Lucas, and Ava are the children. A bit of trivia for background: Aspen is blind. Henry the Jack Russell cross puppy joined the family a couple weeks ago; he's 10 weeks old now. This, of course, makes life with the Pooles quite interesting.

Jason's grandparents got a puppy from the same litter and named her Princess. (I have an opinion on this, but I'll keep it to myself.) Jason's grandpa has been sick for a couple years and has gotten worse since the arrival of the puppy (correlation, not causation). Grandma can't deal with both. Guess who got Princess.

Basically, I've cleaned up so much puppy waste in the last two days that my skin is perpetually dry from washing my hands so much.

Right now I'm a few minutes away from my morning classes at TC3. Public Speaking class comes first, followed immediately by Chem 101. Later today I'll go to Creative Writing, after spending the intervening two hours editing my short story.

To be continued...