Yesterday I had, again, a day that went both badly and greatly. The special thing about it was that I was really split in two. The first part of the day was total crap, the the second half was kind of awesome.
I was starting to work at 10:30, so I had a few minutes to spare in the morning. After I only had to bush my teeth to be ready to go, I went on my PC for a few minutes. I don’t like brushing my teeth right after eating, it makes the taste of the food go away. Anyways. Before I could go brush my teeth, my roommate went to take a shower, obviously in the bathroom, where my toothbrush and toothpaste was. I usually remember to take them out of the bathroom, raah. It isn’t a big deal, really, but it just didn’t start the day too well.
Because I had to find some toothpaste lying somewhere in my bedroom and brush my teeth with my finger, I was a little late. I walked, trying to remember to go a little faster, but failed. I missed the metro by about 45 seconds. I saw the doors close as I was up the stairs. Because it’s the weekend, the service is a bit slow, so it would take a few minutes before the other one came. I decided to sit and tell Twitter that I had finally found some toothpaste. I played a little with my phone, and then the metro arrived, I got up, embarked, and then realised that I didn’t have my cellphone pouch which also contained my phone’s stylus. I turned around and, as the doors closed before me, I saw it there, lying on the floor. Too late. I only had two stations to go before I changed lines (about 3 minutes), so I waited to get there and hoped that the guy at the station would be friendly enough to help me. I was risking being late to work, but I didn’t really care. I got lucky, the guy was nice and called the other station to have them look if they had it. I had to wait for a bit, and then they called back. They didn’t have it. Insert cursing word here.
I still managed to thank the guy and to get to work on time. I even got there a little early, actually, which was surprising. I went to get my student’s file… it wasn’t there. I looked into the whole binder, because the schedules weren’t the same as last week, and I couldn’t find it. Then it was the time to start, and I didn’t have the file, so I chose a random reading exercise (because those take longer to do) and made him do that while I went looking for his file. It wasn’t hard to find, and it was probably me who had forgotten to put it back in the binder last week, but it was still frustrating.
Work went well with my student, and then I had an hour for lunch. I went to get a sandwich at subway and asked for italian white bread, ham and cheddar cheese, and I forgot to say that I wanted it grilled, and the girl was ignoring me or something, so I had to wait a little longer and let the next client go on before me. The bread wasn’t italian white. I didn’t dislike it, but still, it wasn’t what I had asked. While I was eating, I decided to call my mum to vent all that had happened by then, but my brother picked up instead. My mum’s cousin was visiting, so I figured it wasn’t a good timing. I was going there for dinner anyways… I went back to work, and my boss told me I would be working an extra hour starting next week, cause a new student had just registered. Yay? NOT. My other boss talked to me a little later about that new student: he doesn’t speak either French or English and apparently he’s a little bit rebellious. And I’m having him at the same time as another student who doesn’t want to do anything. Well, that’s just GREAT. Then I went to teach to that one who has an attitude problem and to his brother (who is very nice).
Back on the metro, to the bus station, I saw that I had a good 10 minutes before my bus left, so I decided to go buy some more tickets since I only had one left. You may remember that I was having trouble to get the student fare on my card a few months ago. I had gone to the service center and had gotten it fixed, but apparently, the student fare is STILL unavailable this month. It seems like I will have a big trip to make to the service center: see if they found my cellphone pouch, and get this FIXED once and for all.
Then I got on the bus, and the Backstreet Boys were playing. Old-school Backstreet Boys, « Quit Playing Games (With My Heart) ». Cool.
When I got at my mum’s, I ran to the computer to watch « Helping Haiti Heal » an online « telethon » to… well, help Haiti. When I got there it was the PotterCast people with Andrew Slack, I think (the sound was weird and I got there in the middle of everything so I was confused). Then it changed to Jason Munday and Luke Conard of Ministry of Magic and Alex Carpenter of the Remus Lupins, who first played a MoM song, Accio Love (which I LOVE), then Looking For Trouble from TRL, and then a song from their other band, the Oceanic Six (about Lost), called Mr. Eko. And then Hank Green came on, and it suddenly got very, very crazy. I think he was on for about 30 minutes and they’ve raised more than $5,000 during that time. He got the #hhh hashtag on the Trending Topics of Twitter. I personally don’t know how many tweets I made with the #hhh tag. All I know is that the night before I saw that I was close to 600 tweets, but not quite there yet, and by the end of the day I had 649. I’m sort of glad that the Twitter system didn’t kick me out for spamming. Then, PotterCast came on again, and they called Evanna Lynch. EVANNA LYNCH. She’s so sweet! I love her even more. She said she was going to go on the set and see if she could get either a book or a DVD signed by the cast to give to the people who donate. Also, people in the chat suggested that she made a pair of raddish earrings, and she responded: « oh, yeah! sure! » like it was nothing at all. And then the call dropped and they called Darren Criss, from A Very Potter Musical! I suspect that the live stream chat was used mostly by younger girls, because the reaction when he came on was almost crazier than the one that Evanna got. So they asked Darren if he could give something to the people who donate, and he’s going to record a version of Harry (the song) but with the person’s name instead of Harry’s. Then he left and Evanna Lynch came back, and then they added Matt Lewis. MATT LEWIS. AT THE SAME TIME as Evanna Lynch! They had an interesting discussion about Twitter, to which Matt said he had the most boring tweets of all of Twitter, and Evanna said she didn’t want to get Twitter, because she would always be tweeting about the movie set and then she would get in trouble. To which I thought (and I think the PotterCasters said the same): « GET. TWITTER. NOW. » That was so great! Unfortunately, I had to eat dinner at some point (I was at my mum’s for that, after all, lol), so I missed the rest of the call. My mum’s cousin had made her delicious broccoli cream soup. When I came back, they had just left Evanna and Matt (whose phone died, apparently, heh) and were wrapping up. It ended with Harry and the Potters singing « Save Ginny Weasley » and another song that I can’t remember.
By the end of the show, which had lasted for around 6 hours, they had raised $32,000 for Haiti. That is amazing. And that, alone, couldn’t make me feel angry about that bad day anymore.
And it certainly helped that the Canadiens crushed the Rangers 6-0. Oh, and there was chocolate cake and pudding, too.
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