bone in sub

so many disasters today. after not sleeping (24 was too good) i tried to have a 30-minute nap at 6am before showering and heading to school early. i woke up at 6:30 slightly refreshed and with different priorities: more sleeping, less practicing. i set alarms on both my clock radio and phone for 8am. i woke up at 9:15 to a text message – SO LUCKY! i obviously slept straight through my cell phone’s funny alarm, but it appears my clock radio never went off. it was still set and primed for 8am when i woke up – i yelled at it (“HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE!!!”) before i realized i wasn’t going to be late. i had time to quickly shower and shave and get to my 10am class on time (with no breakfast).

unfortunately it was ‘warm’ (1C) this morning, so the roads were covered in slush water, and my legs got soaked from feet to knees. my feet were wet all day until i got home a little while ago and took my socks off, gross.

school was fine, a cool class on mexican music and an interesting piece in orchestra. just from looking at it i thought it was going to be contemporary atonal nonsense, but it’s actually a pretty serious pastiche. not that cool to hear, but fun to play!

my bike lock was frozen, AGAIN. this time not because of freezing rain, but because of how wet it got on my ride to school this morning. ridiculous. i filled a coffee cup with hot water and melted it again, what a pain. unfortunately my back brake cable had failed on the way over, so i only had front brakes. on my way down philosopher’s walk, i tried to test the front brakes only to find that they were frozen solid. i tried to free them from the ice, and the brake cable snapped with the brake pads seized closed. wonderful. i think it was a combination of rust and today’s crazy melt/refreeze cycle. it’s -20 out right now.

somehow i don’t feel like it’s a bad day and i’m not angry. no idea why, but i’m still feeling good!