Yesterday I had "one of those days." It didn't start out too bad. We had co-op
and drama practice, and it's coming along just great. Almost all of the kids
have their lines memorized and we're starting to put together props and sets
now, and we're still two months out from the play. We tried having practice in
the basement of the building this time, because none of the kids ever wanted to
play down there, and there was more room. Of course, today all the kids wanted
to play down there and it was pretty noisy. That basement echoes something
crazy. I'm not sure where the best place to practice is!
After practice
I went home and made supper, and then I had to go up to the school to take an
English test. I had actually tried to take it the Tuesday but you have to be
there an hour before they close, and I didn't make it in time. So they wouldn't
let me take it. This class is one from another campus, and the teacher e-mails
it to the testing center. I have a total of five tests for this class that I
have to take on campus, and this was the fourth. The first test they had all
sorts of trouble getting from one campus to the other; no matter how many times
the professor e-mailed it, it never showed up in the testing center. She finally
had to use a different e-mail address. The second and third tests came in just
fine. When I got up there yesterday, the fourth test wasn't there again. The
lady at the testing center had to call the professor at home and left her a
message on her answering machine.
In the meantime, I decided to go to
Wal-Mart and get some plants for the garden and some potting soil. The potting
soil was too heavy to lift, so I asked the man at the check-out counter if he
could assist me with that. He looked up the bar code in his little book and
tried to scan it was his hand-held device, but it wouldn't scan. So he went and
got a shopping card and put one of the bags of potting soil in the cart and
brought it back to the check-out line. While he was putting it into the cart, he
tore the bag and was pouring potting soil out all over the floor. He tried to
scan the bag with the hand-held device, and it still wouldn't scan. So he picked
up the whole bag and dragged it across the scanner. At the point he grabbed it
to lift it, he finally discovered the hole in the bag by sticking his hand in
the dirt. There was potting soil everywhere.
He finally got it scanned
and loaded two bags (ones that weren't torn) into my van. I called the testing
center and they still had not received my test. Since Wal-Mart didn't have bell
peppers in the size I wanted, I went to Lowe's to purchase some of them and give
my professor some extra time to return their call.
While I was standing
in line at Lowe's, the man behind me was standing way too close to me. He was in
my personal bubble. I tried to step as close as I could to the next person in
line without invading his personal space. The guy behind me was so close that
the cashier thought we were together. Then she heard a ding or something and
said, "Customer service, how may I help you?" She laughed and said, "Why did I
say that?" I thought that was odd.
When I called the testing center
again, my test had actually arrived! I went back and got my padlock for the
locker for my purse. Just as I was about to click the padlock, I stopped myself
and thought, "Now wait a minute--what did I do with that key?" I checked through
all my pockets--nothing. Finally I opened the locker back up, took out my purse,
and checked in there. I ended up emptying the entire thing onto the table before
I found the locker key. I couldn't believe I had been so close to locking the
key inside the locker.
Even on the test I kept doing dumb things. Twice
I circled the question instead of the answer. I just hope I did okay on the
test!
When I got home, I put my keys into my purse and slung my purse
over my shoulder. Somehow it ended up upside-down and the entire contents of my
purse fell all over the driveway.
I wasn't the only one having an odd
day yesterday. I saw a lady at Wal-Mart standing outside her vehicle that she
had locked herself out of. Her car was running, too.
Oh, and by the way,
I still haven't heard back about that job. I've called them every day this week
and they haven't called me back.
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