1. Read a book.
2.Check e-mail.
3. Dream about and research your future apartment. They cheapest apartment I found was $350 per month and I could live in Paris for $1,200 per month.
4. Skype your lovely family back home....i could hear the kettle whistling, mom cooking, Jordy playing guitar...
5. Make a list of complaints just to get it out of your system:
Lunch wasn't served today
Can't go to graduation because I don't have a ticket
Library's closed
Rainy outside
Cold outside
Have to move to Lambein later
6. Explore wherever you are
For me that was Gillette
7. Make a list of what you found:
An out of tune piano dedicated to some one's mother. I wondered how many times fingers had coaxed tunes out of it. Played Fur Elise on it-still sounded bad. But the keys were definitely poem worthy.
Found some ancient pictures in a nook near the fireplace in the basement
Found a lovely Victorian looking chair in one of the fourth story study-nooks. They all have windows. Now all I need is some hot cocoa and a book.
Found my favorite lounge on fourth floor to. Window, comfy chairs, eclectic and cozy. Note to self: new haunt.
Found a small dark closet in the basement-wish it had a light.
8. Write a grumpy poem:
Today holds as much pleasure as a stale cracker.
Past it's expiration date
or freezer-burnt ice cream
At the bottom of the box
Or how bathrooms smell
When they need cleaned
Today feels like a poem tied to a chair
Beaten for meaning
Or the stain
You can't get out of the carpet
Or the weariness
Before you even get out of bed
Today is like a computer screen
Flat
Or a sidewalk
With no daisies
I kneel with my ear to the pavement
Straining to hear what it's saying.
9. Put on some jazz music, lipstick and a smile and realize that if people could die from boredom you'd have 9 lives.
10.Update your blog or write in a diary.
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