Day Before

Well, tomorrow is the Big Day when I start back to taking classes.

Things I need to remember:

• Go early enough to check out where the Italian classes will be. I have a room number but the adviser said to check that at the front desk before I go because often the classes are moved at the last minute. I have to check this before classes start because I have only 30 minutes between ceramics and Italian and I want to use those minutes to eat.
• Put a couple of notebooks, a pen and my Italian dictionary {the small one} in my backpack.Also I need to have a sandwich, some fruit, my cellphone and my wallet with money in there, too. Oh, and find my art apron and put it in the backpack, too,
• Wear a sweater with easy-to-push-up sleeves {for ceramics.} I have already cut my fingernails!
• Eat a high-protein with a little fat breakfast at 11 am before I leave.

In thinking about yesterday, I have NO idea what useful things I did! I know I emptied the little pan under the dishwasher  and washed a big load of dishes. Oh, yes, I cleaned the bathroom including the floor which was looking a bit grungy. The rest of the day, I watched Torchwood reruns on BBC America. I am becoming more and more enamored of that series and will probably buy the DVDs when they come out at the end of January.

List for today:

• get a big box full of recyclable paper and a big bag full of the same out of the workroom and the bedroom. I was waiting until the landlord emptied the recyclables bin before doing that, but I have decided it isn’t MY problem if the paper gets soggy since I have to put it beside, rather than IN the container…
• Pack the backpack with everything except the sandwich and fruit and put it on the end of the table right beside where the coats are. I find I have to have a certain place to put things I need to carry with me or they get forgotten. Back in the teaching days, my stuff went right in front of the back door!
• Do my exercises including those damned squats and plies! {I may hate these exercises but something is working. I still lurch but it is much less that it was…}

I hope everyone has a good day and stays warm. The temperature here in my part of Vermont is 12 degrees which feels like minus 1!

QUOTATIONS:

"Step by step. I can’t think of any other way of accomplishing anything."

Michael Jordan

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

Bertolt Brecht, 1933