I just read a friend’s “a day in the life” post and I rarely if ever do this but I thought it would be a nice change, as this kind of thing never really finds its way out of my journal to the good ol’ bloggy blog. Plus I’ve been much less prolific than ever and honestly much less creative than ever. So this is an exercise of some sort at 4am. Please proceed, if you wish:

I had Physics this morning and while I know I should have gone, this being 10th week with finals just around the corner, I’d taken my Chem Lab final the night prior and couldn’t convince myself that an hour and a half lecture was worth wriggling out of the most comfortable bed in the world. So I decided to reward myself and I slept. And slept. And awoke at noon, at which point I rubbed the dew of slumber from my eyes and opened my laptop to respond to a slew of emails and write a slew of emails. One particularly notable one was to my awesome contact at UCSD Environment, Health and Safety regarding an upcoming Tupperware Lending Program (to divert Styrofoam waste from the University Centers vendors), in addition to potentially making the Sustainability Resource Center a electronic waste collection site. Exciting developments to come!

I stopped being a baby at some point and rolled out of the most comfortable bed in the world, drove to campus while wailing along to Julie Doiron’s “I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day” discovering the tracks I’d never paid attention to the million times I’ve listened to it before. I found out that my favorite parts consist of a prominent snare drum.

Oh yeah, one of my emails earlier was sent for the purpose of cancelling my regular 4pm meetings with the SSC Energy and Waste Team interns because they had all reminded me in some way or another that it’s 10th week and I’m crazy for working on and expecting anyone to be working on SSC things. But I planned to meet with one of the fantastic, newly-hired Intersectionality Assistant Directors at 3:30pm for a nice little update. And I made it on time! Following that session, I stayed right in place at the student space in the SRC to chat with the amazing folks of Engineers for a Sustainable World about their summer initiatives in Thailand. Then two other SSCers joined me in hanging up posters for an event that is scheduled during 10th week by the SSC Public Health Team regarding E-waste (check it out, intersectonality! And the implication of everything in this paragraph sort of coming full circle as a result of my rhetoric).

I spent some time on my Race and Ethnicity in the United States readings, as our final is this Friday and I haven’t done much to prepare for this exam. But quite auspiciously the topic is “What’s the Matter with UCSD?” and accordingly, we’ve been assigned “Another University is Possible”, which is a compilation of the speeches, articles and posts expressed throughout the events of last year. I am really enjoying re-reading all of these, the first go-around being at the time of their delivery, but it is also rather difficult to confront those events in the framework that I’ve had to have many conversations this year with people who still wonder “Why was all of that such a big deal?” I digress.

The hour brought me to dinner rather regrettably at Rubio’s, the manager of which I had applauded in October’s vendor meeting for switching from Styrofoam containers to recycled paper boxes - yet today my food was served in a Styrofoam container because they’d run out of the alternative! The manager was quick to reassure me that the sustainable option would be shipped in as soon as tomorrow, but as I’m hardly ever a patron to the PC vendors I’m afraid I had to sulk in the inauspicious happenstance that I had made a polystyrene purchase.

7:30pm on 30 November meant dancing at Porter’s Pub in support of Invisible Children Schools 4 Schools! Tonight was the long-awaited benefit concert and I was so happy to support my good friends on the S4S leadership team at a really well-organized event headlined by a local hip hop/raggae band called Tribal Theory. Spent some/most of the evening gathered with Keyvan, Oliver, Shaheen and Chad which was just wonderful.

I took the shuttle back to my car at 11pm, and drove home wondering what you did with your day. To the beat of the snare drum.

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