Today I woke up at 7:30 to the beeping of my alarm clock. You may think that is good, but I meant to set the time to 6:30. I frantically jumped out of bed and dug through my closet for something, anything to wear. At this point I didn’t care about if it matched or not, so I just threw on some random clothes and ran into the bathroom. Do you know how there are those days everything just goes bad? Well today was one of those days when everything just falls of a cliff and is run over by two different trains. I ran into the bathroom and started brushing my teeth. Sure enough, my toothpaste fell on my shirt. I groaned and ran back into my closet to find another shirt. As I was rummaging through, I finally looked at myself in the mirror. Boy did I look awful. I decided that I would just throw on a jacket to cover up the toothpaste stain, but the problem was that it was 80 degrees outside. I did it anyways, and by the time I finished breakfast and got into the car, I was sweating. It was 7:56 and it was clear that I was going to be late for school. I sighed as I pulled into the middle school.

I opened the door and it was silent. Class had already begun and I was going to get a tardy slip. I peeked into the middle school office and saw no one, so I proceeded up the stairs to my first class. My first and second class went by smoothly, and as I was walking back to the middle school after second period, I realized that I had forgotten to do the science homework. I immediately started running. I rushed up the stairs and into the 8th grade hallway. I desperately pulled out my tablet and started typing. Break was almost over, and I had 3 minutes to finish 2 more questions. I finally finished and sent my paper to the printer, but the printer wouldn’t work. I sent it over and over but the printer still said “No Records Found”. I ended up getting 10 points off the assignment because the stupid printer wouldn’t print. In fourth period math, we had a test. I had forgotten to study the other night and I wildly searched for the answers in the back of my head. Knowing that I had probably failed the math test, I trudged to lunch. At lunch, I spilled marinara sauce all of my pants and shoes. I went into the bathroom to clean it up, and as I was walking out, I slipped and fell and hit my head on the door. The rest of the day was okay, not great, but okay. I went home and flopped down on the couch, thinking of the hectic day I had just survived.

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Today was way better than yesterday. Yesterday I had so many things to do and everything basically collapsed. Everything went bad yesterday and today was like a rainbow after a furious thunderstorm. I didn’t have anything due today and I even woke up before my alarm clock. That didn’t happen very often so the moment that I woke up, I knew today was going to be a much better day than yesterday. I even picked out an outfit the night before just in case it was one of those mornings. I had a great breakfast that consisted of oatmeal with brown sugar, scrambled eggs, and a smoothie and I had remembered to do all of my homework. I walked into school feeling that all the weights that had once been on my shoulders had suddenly been lifted up. I got more partial credit that I had expected on my science assignment and I got a good grade on my math test. I even got a 100 on my Spanish quiz, and that rarely ever happens. After art, I knew that everything was alright and all the things that were important were taken care of.

At field hockey practice, which I wasn’t late to, we played games almost the whole time and we did corners at the end. It was like the world was giving me ice cream and candy after getting shots at the doctor’s office. When I came home, the smell of fresh pizza filled my nose and I saw my grandma taking out a pizza out of the oven. I was overwhelmed by how nice the world was being, but also a feeling that all my worries were floating away. That night, I flopped onto my bed thinking about the relaxed day that I had just lived.

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Words:

frantic, carefree