Just a Day, Just An Ordinary Day

6:20am Wake up randomly in midst of dream involving color yellow and cartoon badgers. Am happy because 1. enjoy hearing wave sound and 2. have an hour left of sleep. Fall back asleep.

7:20 Alarm rings. Leap from bed to bathroom as do not believe in snooze alarms.

7:25 Complete beauty routine. Involves vanillamint toothpaste, vanilla marshmallow day facial moisturizer, vanilla chai deodorant, and vanilla buttercream lotion. Wonder if it beauty routine involves too much vanilla. Wonder if Cosmo is, in fact, full of shit, and vanilla does not act as an aphrodisiac for the male species.

7:30 Select white sundress, brown leggings, brown cardigan, white flats. Half-assedly wrangle hair into tortoiseshell barette.

7:35 Steal tomatoes from garden. Yum, breakfast.

7:40 Set off for trainstation. Ipod shuffle - Vanessa Carlton, Ordinary Day.

7:45 Head nods withplatform buddy, Neighbor Dad With Blue Gym Bag. Unknown women on bench discuss how they would move their summer homes to Beverly Farms if it had a gourmet butcher with marinated meat.

7:49 Bell clangs, announcing train. Women coo over the cuteness of the bell. Neighbor Dad looks at them, rolls eyes at me. Feel smugly like a local.

7:52 Settle into seat, crack open Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster. (Excellent. Buy it immediately.)

8:01 Beverly Depot. 567 frat-boys-turned-business-men between the ages of 26 and 36 all wearing khakis and a blue button down shirt (striped or checked or plain) get on. One of the 562 sits next to me. Turn towards wall and fall asleep. Terrified that my natural snuggling instincts will take over and I will wake up cuddling with Mr. Ex-Frat.

8:06 Salem. 432 Businesswomen in Ann Taylor Loft stretch pantsuits and sensible Aerosoles heels take up remaining spots.

8:33. North Station. In attempt not to cuddle with Mr. Ex-Frat have, while asleep, attempted to cuddle with train wall. Awake and try to extricate limbs from bizarre wall-hugging position.

8:40 Get on Orange Line at North Station.

8:50 Arrive Ruggles Station.

8:51 Miss bus. Wait at Bus Bay 5 with normal bus buddy, Hot Latina With Big Gold Hoop Earrings and Different Colored Polo Shirt Every Day. Read book.

9:00 Bus false alarm.

9:10 Get on bus. A different Surly Driver every day.

9:30 Exit bus outside Family Dollar on Columbia Street. Cross to CVS. Browse.

9:32 Spot actor from other tour in CVS. Hastily chuck Never Seduce a Rake behind shelf and pretend I was not at all reading the back cover.

9:40 Purchase two diet cherry cokes, two diet sunkists, and the third lipgloss this week (because Covergirl Baby Petal Natural Shine is soooo different from Maybelline Baby Girl Lip Plumping).

9:45 Successfully make it up 4 flights of stairs to rehearsal hall.

And thusly, my day begins.