My Morning Ritual

4:45 AM

The alarm goes off.

4:54 AM

The alarm goes off again.

5:00 AM

My alarm goes off -- it is distinctively less pleasant than the one Rosina uses.

5:03 AM

Rosina's alarm goes off yet again.

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Skip forward more than a half-hour of repeated alarms going off.

5:33 AM

Absently, I hug Rosina gently as I attempt to wake thoroughly enough for morning sex.

5:42 AM

The alarm goes off at the worst possible time.

6:04 AM

After loading boxes of books into the car, we are finally ready to go. I hold my green laptop bag in my arms and rub the sleep from my eyes as she drives me to the train station.

6:09 AM

As Rosina drops me off, the train is just arriving. I wish her well on her upcoming day at the high school and pull out Anthem while I walk to the train.

6:55 AM

The train pulls into Union Station, as I write in my physical journal about the book I'd just read.

7:09 AM

Breakfast at Au Bon Pain is purchased.

7:20 AM

I walk into my building at work. No one else will arrive for at least an hour and a half. Most will not arrive until 9:30 AM.

8:30 AM

I close google reader and start planning my day of work.

8:31 AM

I pull up facebook scrabble.

8:54 AM

I restart planning my day of work.

8:55 AM

I pull up blogger.com to start writing this entry.