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Everytime I go to Rhode Island - or anytime I have to get up earlier than usual - I always am awake before the alarm clock goes off. I don't know if I am more in touch with my inner alarm clock but I always wake up about 10 minutes before I need to. Sometimes that gets me in trouble. One morning at around 4:30 AM, I hopped up and jumped into the shower to fully wake up. While I was still in the shower after ten minutes, my alarm started beeping away. For a long time. Until Claudine had to wake up and crawl across the bed to shut it off. I got a nice reception when I came back into the room.
I'm sure I've said this before, but I really enjoy driving long distances. And I enjoy it even more when it is really early in the morning. I'm sure it's a throwback to the days that my parents would wake my brother and I up at 3 in the morning, toss us in the car and set off on another of our driving vacations. As a kid that morning was so exciting to me every year. Anyway, I set off at about 5:00 AM for that region they call New England. And I made it there at about 8:30 AM. It was an incredibly uneventful but speedy drive.
I won't go into all the specifics of what I was doing there. It's boring. But if you were to graph my day (and really, why would you?) it was just a perfect curve. I got there in the morning all full of plans and goals. At around noon, I had failed to actually accomplish anything at all. Except to become extremely frustrated. Then by the afternoon, I had made a couple of breakthroughs and by the time the day was done, I had succeeded in both major goals I had for the day. Whee. And I couldn't have made it through the crappy part of the day without D (who you'll remember is the coolest person in Rhode Island). Usually we just make each other laugh all day, but during that mid part of the day, it was all her, baby.
After work that day, D an I went out for sushi and beer. Except that for some reason, she felt she had to have one of those wacky oriental drinks that are appear in colors that don't actually occur in nature and that make you diabetic simply by looking at them. The one she ordered was the most interesting shade of green. I didn't actually try it. D's real craving while eating at a sushi place is the seaweed salad. I didn't like it ther first time I tried it, but I liked it better this time. We just talked and laughed until she had to leave. But not before adding another seaweed salad in the takeout sushi order that she was taking back to her boyfriend.
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