Buzzkill In The Baltic

Here's a brief recap of October 15th, 2008.

5:30 am - Awaken by rowdy corridor mates who were just turning in from a long night celebrating a mates 21st birthday.

7:30 am - Wake up to shower. Hit head on lamp next to bed on my way out of bed.

8:00 am - Attempt to make single egg on stove to eat with a tortilla. Stove is broken and doesn't heat egg.

8:10 am - After finally getting egg cooked on the second stove I place in tortilla and bite into it. Yolk was still runny and scalding hot. Burn top of mouth on molten yolk.

8:11 am - Step outside to rainy weather.

9:00 am - Arrive at my destination (relatively damp)

9:02 am - Receptionist at Ideon informs my partner and I that our meeting this morning has been canceled since the lady we were going to meet with is home sick.

9:10 am - My partner and I decide to get a cup of coffee from the Economics building and talk about our assignment.

9:11 am - Accidently hit girl with backpack and cause her to spill coffee on her shirt.

10:25 am - My classmate and I go to the computer lab to work on our assignment.

11:30 am - Message comes on computer screen that says all systems will be shut down at noon due to administrative rebooting.

12:01 pm - Computers shut off.

12:30 pm - Decide to walk over to technical college to see about a cheap sandwich. Apparently today was popular sandwich day with the students. All that was left was a liverwurst sandwich and some rolls. (I opted for the roll).

12:45 pm - Return to computer lab to work on assignment.

4:30 pm - Leave lab to attend final meeting of the day. Realize that today was an innovation bar at the Economics department where they have food and booze and networking starting at 4:00pm. Too late now. We're off to our last meeting.

5:00 pm - Show up to final meeting of the day. Realize that I misread the schedule and the seminar is solely in Swedish.

7:00 pm - Seminar ends and walk home (in the rain).

7:45 pm - Warm up bowl of soup. Burn fingers when pulling soup bowl from microwave.

7:46 pm - Burn mouth on hot soup while forgetting about molten yolk that burnt mouth earlier in the day.

8:45 pm - Log into hotmail account to check on days messages.

8:46 pm - Realize Skype is giving me fits and not sending messages through.

8:47 pm - Open email from consulate informing me my visa application has been denied.

8:50 pm - Look on yahoo finance and see market is off 500 points with no floor in sight.

8:53 pm - Decide to have an overpriced beer and call it a day.