A Day of Ups and Downs

When I finally dragged my butt out of bed, I was looking forward to what today had to offer, not anticipating what was to come.  Despite my English class being canceled, today was just going to be a good day.  It start with going to McDonalds and waking up with a good cup of coffee.  (Their coffee, btw, is the bomb.)  So I get in line, place my order of a medium coffee with one cream and three sugars, a bottle of water and a sausage mcgriddle with cheese (those are also pretty dang good) and take off in the truck, listening to good ole' Glenn Beck rant and rave about Obama.  So far, pretty good morning. 

I stop at the store, see Papaw, and drop off some battery cores for my boss because I'm just that kind of guy.  Here is where it goes down hill.  While eating and driving I allow my coffee to cool and take my first big swig of coffee and it's disgusting! Apparently they put 10 creams, and instead of sugar I get Sweet and Low.  Not good.  I try to make the best of it, but after 3-4 sips I have to pour it down the sink. NO COFFEE! 

If you really don't know me, then you don't know that I have to have coffee in the mornings.  You're probably are saying, "Just go and get another cup."  Well I'm broke.  So far Eastern has still deprived me of my refund check and my account is running very low. 

So, I'm getting ready to go to school without a wake-up.  Day so far -- on shaky ground.  I get to school, sit in Java and try to inhale the coffee fumes thinking maybe that will do the trick.  Nope.  I text the Carrot and she tells me that Trick or Treat is Saturday night, and I'm off work, so I get to go with my nieces trick or treating.  (Jara is being a pirate and you would just have to see and hear her talk like a pirate.  It's hilarious!) .  Day takes a turn for the better. 

I tet into history class and our professor starts talking about the New Deal.  I'm pretty interested.  [I also learned a mind-boggling fact about FDR:  Eleanor's (his wife) name was Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, she and her husband were FIRST COUSINS!  Their Papas were full brothers.  I had NO idea about that![  Anyways at the end of class we get back our essay papers.  I was feeling pretty good about the paper and was expecting a high c or low b........low d!!!!  Well that sent my day crashing down, and I quote from my facebook status: "I just want to crawl into a hole."

After getting a C on the midterm, a D on the paper, and missing two quizes, my grade is not looking good at the moment.  So here I sit, doing the math to see how I can get at least a B in the class, and I find it's going to be challenging.  But I have to get it up to a B.  This day is going further downhill fast. 

After doing the math for my History class, I figured my GPA.  (I need to get a 2.75 this semester.)  But then I stumbled onto my English paper on Blackboard.  I scroll down expecting a C at best (it was late and she was taking one letter grade off).  Then I see with amazment: a B+!!!!!!!! (And that was AFTER she took it down a letter grade.)  So, had I turned it in on time, I would have had an A+, and just like the stock market after hearing good economic news, my mood sky rockets! 

Now im off to work, which is always full of awful surprises, so I'm sure the day will contniue with ups and downs...

[Note from Carrie, also refered to as Carrot, the amazing friend that edits this blog:  It must be thoroughly understood here and now that Jon is, and forever will, a die-hard Republican.  He is not a violent protestor of Democrats, but he will NEVER let me live it down that I voted for Obama.  Please excuse his biased tendencies, and forgive him if he's a bit too conservative for your tastes.  I promise, he's hilarious enough to make up for it.  I wouldn't have put him in my side-bar if that weren't true.  ;)  Also, please note that I only SLIGHTLY edit these posts.  My grammar is much better than this on my own blog, but I feel that a few mistakes add to Jon's anti-English-major personality.  Thanks for reading.  :)]