Sunday, April 3, 2011

Poor Pour

Today I was thirsty and at the store, so I decided to treat myself to something other than water. I bought a tasty looking raspberry lemonade. One of my professor assigned some readings that she had one photocopy of outside her office to read. I decided my special drink would make sitting outside her office for an hour reading lengthy technical articles would make things better. After leaving the store, I took one sip of my drink to know what deliciousness awaited me and to motivate me to walk the 30 minutes to her office to have at least an hour of reading, but more importantly, the rest of my drink.

I arrived outside her office and removed my backpack. Instantly, I knew my special drink had left its container and saturated everything in my backpack. Sure enough, after that one sip, I apparently didn't fasten the lid although I believe the lid was designed poorly and it wasn't my fault. My notebook inside my backpack was soaked. My clothes got a bit wet too. Everything reeked of raspberries. It was very sad and frustrating. Not only that, I still had all the reading to do, thirsty and smelling of the juice I only got one sip of.

Some days are like that. Something you look forward to wrecks everything and destroys your notebook. However, if you are going to smell like something you spilled all over everything, raspberry lemonade isn't that terrible.