This is about all I can say about today.  Today hasn't been a bad day per say. It's just not a  day that I am dying to live over again.  It is just one of those days where nothing goes exactly how you planned and you feel like you're a step or two behind the entire day.

It started with my coffee pot.  The first thing I do at 5:45am is to start my coffee maker.  This is something that I do so regularly and I've done it for so many years that I think I could do it in my sleep.  I wouldn't even be surprised if I do start it in my sleep.  I am still pretty blurry-eyed at not yet six o'clock in the morning when I drag myself out of bed.

Well, this morning the filter in my coffee pot folded down upon itself and rather than having a nice dark, rich pot of coffee it looked like giant pot of English breakfast tea.  <!--more-->Yuck.  For a fleeting moment I wondered if I could just dump out the pot, fix the paper filter and re-run it with less water.   I decided that was crazy-think so I poured out the coffee and tossed out the wet-coffee laden filter.  Then I made pot number two.  As luck would have it, this one turned out just fine.

After a cup of coffee, I felt more like a human being.  I took a shower, got dressed and then ate breakfast.  On my way out of the apartment building I caught a glimpse of myself in the elevator mirror. It wasn't good.   I don't have a full-length mirror in my apartment and was surprised by how um not ready for work I looked.  It kind of looked like I got ready for work in the dark.  That's not such a great look for me and I couldn't imagine standing in front of two different classes of students and teaching them.  Needless to say, I went back up to my apartment for a second shot at my outfit.

The other challenge recently has been that at 7am when I leave my apartment to walk to school, it's still dark outside.  And cold. But when I leave school at the end of the day it's 80 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny.  Mostly I over dress because I'd rather be warm than cold. So this morning as a result of my coffee fiasco or maybe as a result of my bad taste (or maybe bad eye sight), I am later to school than I'd like but on the upside also warmer than normal.

Then it was a day of students--seeing students, teaching students, reading student papers, grading students and talking with students.  Don't get me wrong I actually like this.  I like them.  I like how much energy they have, how they always greet me: Hello Ms. Emigh and how most of them are dying to answer questions in class but today, it was harder to get them to focus, to talk about our books and to answer questions.  I hope it's just a case of the Fridays but maybe it's just one of those days.