A Snickers Day

March 15, 2005

So cheerios days are those days when you just have to settle for whatever you can get done – even if it isn’t enough, and even if it isn’t good enough.

Today is not a cheerios day. Today is a snickers day. I hate to take this food image too far, but they just keep getting handed to me. So, I’ll go with it.

You know those days when you know life is good but damn if it doesn’t feel like it? Those days when nothing is wrong and the sun is out and you have great friends and life is good, but you just can’t get into it? Those days when you find yourself staring at the wall and wonder how long you’ve been doing it? Those days when you get back in the shower mid-day in hopes of starting it all over again? I’m having one of those days.

I found myself at lunch slumped in my seat and staring at the ceiling blankly. Too much work to do, none of it is fun or fulfilling. My room is a mess. And we could go on, but it’s really not that bad, so that’s not the point.

At any rate, staring, and John apparently is talking to me. Something about Alias. Totally missed it. So he got up and stood in my face and asked me my favorite food (favorite questions are not good on these kind of days – I can’t think of anything – chocolate??). So collectively the group around me decides snickers is a good answer – hard to go wrong with snickers.

So I’m back in my room, in my mess, trying to get some more IDs down on flash cards to memorize while I’m at work when there is a knock on my door. I turn around to see a snickers bar flying at my face. Definitely didn’t catch it. Definitely landed in my diet coke. Whoops.

Today is a snickers day. A day when you really need friends to throw things at you to keep you alert and remind you that you just get through. And maybe snickers will help. But mostly you just keep going and hope tomorrow is a cotton candy day – light, sweet and fluffy. But today, today is just going to be a snickers day.

Posted in life by Sarah Walker Cleaveland