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7:02A.M.
Eric Brind'Amour
I don't have class until 9:20 and I roll over Rod Stewart and "loving you is easy cause you're
and look down at my roommate's alarm clock, beautiful" while Minnie Ripperton (I learned that
which I want to shoot for going off two hours be- from one of those TimeLife music infomercials)
fore either of us has class, except firearms aren't screeches up and down the scale like a hybrid
allowed in the dorms or Residence Halls if you're Mariah Carey crossed with my hamster. I miss
politically correct which I'm not because I know the little guy-she's so cute and fluffy and I envy
"dorm" is a Latin root for sleep or something like him because all he has to do is dig tunnels in his
that and this is a "community" not merely a sleep- shavings, sleep 26 hours a day and run around on
ing place-show true; plywood lofts are hardly con- his wheel which SQUUEEEEEEKS so I make him
ducive to sleep, but I think I'll dorm until about 9, sleep in the library at night when I'm home so I
since I don't have to blow-dry my hair, apply don't have to hear it at 5:30 AM.
makeup, or worry about which jeans make me look
fat or any of that stereotypical girl crap, and I say It's 7:33 now.
stereotypical because I am 100% chick and you I am looking out of this high-rise through
couldn't kill me to poke holes in my ears or belly a teeny (2' x 3') window and I can see Lake Ontario
button, or eat a salad and 14 fries and call that and it actually looks clean and out the other side
"lunch." of the building I can see the Bank of Montreal
building; I call it MUNtreal but people down here
I apologize for my negative attitude--I call it MAWNtreal and I wonder why that is be-
know I'm lucky to go to bed before midnight and cause the people who live there call it mohnraeawhl
beer has never touched my lips so I'm lucky not to cause they're mostly Frenchies and what I wouldn't
wake up with a pounding headache with some give to wake up next to a gorgeous French-Cana-
strange guy in my bed but if some people want to dian hockey player right about now. I'm looking
choose that life-style I can't stop them, and just down into Lake Ontario and it's making a rushing
because they can live on four hours of sleep doesn't sound like it's raining but it's also sunny outside
excuse my body from needing ten to eleven. Be- and the lake is a pure black-blue and the sky is a
sides, I've never been a morning person, anyways. periwinkle color=like in the "Don't go chasing
I WOULD stay up until three or four is there was waterfalls" video ..."please stick to the rivers and
a) something to do besides drink, screw, or listen the lakes that you're used to ..." But I'm not used to
to my neighbour's 2 AM phone calls (four hours Lake Ontario being clean ...1 miss Toronto and I
of primarily whimpering "i love you i miss you i wanna go home.
love you i'm sorry, look, i SAID I WAS SORRY, It's eleven minutes after eight, traffic is
OK?! i love you ...) and b) ifI didn't have classes at next ...Metabolife! I have more energy, and it's a
8 or 9 in the morning. supplement! Not a diet! ...Harbour tunnel backed
up to 795 to the JFX and accident near
The good news is that God is being nice to Reisterstown Road causing some delays, green
me and it's sunny--it usually pours rain, especially light for the Beltway northbound westbound 1-70
on Tuesday and Thursday when I have classes in to Frederick a minor accident there ...Baltimore
the art studio and naturally have to carry "artworks" weather today partly sunny with a high of 42, over-
and pray that the ink doesn't smear. So far God night lows around 28; don't expect it to last; to-
has been merciful in that department; never mind, morrow high of 36 with heavy rain ...
it's Wednesday. What time is it? Lemme see ... PISS! tomorrow's Thursday and I have art
Oh, it's 7: 12. I think I'll TRY to go back to class!
sleep, but I keep getting distracted by that STU- Wait a minute ...
pID alarm clock playing worn-out 70's love songs;
