Sometimes things just fall in their proper places

I'm taking a summer class on Film in Sac State. It's not a filmmaking class, just a course in understanding movies. Since last week, I knew that I have an online quiz that is due today. I've also known since last week that the preliminary writing assignment is due the same day (today). Being the procrastinator that I am, I put off both studying for the quiz and starting on the paper. Every night I would think, "I should really be reading that chapter on editing." But lo and behold, I would end up spending time browsing on my PC or watching TV. Last Monday I just ended up watching For Love or Money. Last Tuesday night, I watched Last Comic Standing and then the news and then Letterman and Conan O'Brien. During commercials, I would go on my computer and post in Barrio Alimasag. But I would never find time for the paper or the quiz. I somehow knew that I would cram the night before to work on the paper and to take the online quiz. Except there's one problem...the night before the paper is due is Wednesday night. That's Swing Night at the Tower Club. Somehow I have this urge to go swing dancing this Wednesday night.
Wednesday morning, on my way to work to San Fran, I had my front driver side tire blew up on me. No this is not just a flat tire, not just a hole in the tire, the whole tire was split in pieces. So okay, I can change the tires. I've done this plenty of times before. I'm just glad there was a very large shoulder on lane 1 of I-80. This shouldn't be a problem. But as I was changing tires, I thought about my plans to go down to Los Angeles this Saturday. I can't use the emergency tire for this 6 hour commute. I need to get new tires for the car. But when?
So I thought about ditching work and just take care of the situation now. But I need to work because I need the cash. I don't want to use my vacation time because I do have plans on taking a vacation this July. So I decided I'd go to work and get new tires Thursday morning before class or after class. I may just have to turn in the paper late and take that 5 point deduction. As I finished putting on the emergency tire, I noticed that the tire was low on air. After I lowered the jack, the tire was almost flat. Great, now I have to drive to the nearest exit on an almost flat tire during the busiest time on I-80.
To make the story short, I made to the nearest exit and to work. I was a few minutes late but that was not really a big deal. On my way home, I was thinking of the quiz, the paper, the tires, and I still want to go to Tower Club. I know that I can take the quiz without really studying, but I'm more worried about the paper and my drive to LA. I also know that if I don't go to the Tower Club and just stay at home, I'd probably won't start on the paper until 11 anyways and will just spend the early part of the night just watching TV. So screw it. I'm going dancing.
There's a swing lesson at Tower Club before they start playing music. And tonight, they were teaching Balboa. I used to do Balboa and Shag along with Lindy Hop in San Diego but never really got good at it. It was just refreshing learning how to Balboa again. It was a fun night. I put in a few hours of swing dancing and now I'm ready to go home. Maybe I can start on that paper now since it'll be due the next afternoon.
Of course when I got home and turned on my PC, I didn't open my MS Word right away to start the paper, but instead opened all my email accounts and started reading my mails. Soon I was browsing online and reading the latest posts at alimasag. I was getting sleepy, too so I just decided to go to bed. The paper and all that studying nonsense can wait until tomorrow. I need to get my sleep. But I just had to turn the TV on while I was in bed and soon instead of sleeping, I ended up watching Conan O'Brien interviewing Kristin Davis. Okay this has to stop. Where's that remote? Let's turn this power off.
The next morning my alarm clock went off at 6 am. There's no way I'm getting up at 6 this morning. I hit the snooze button and went back to bed. When I finally woke up, it was 9 am.
My class is at 12:40. So I have a few hours to study. I turned on the PC and guess who's online this morning? Brader Ace! So we chatted on YM and then at 9:30 I decided to head out to Starbucks to get some caffeine. When I got back, Ace was still online and we chatted some more. At a little after 10, I decided to finally take this online quiz. Maybe I don't have to read the chapter beforehand. It's open book anyways. There's only 20 questions and you have 20 minutes to finish it. So I told Ace about the quiz and then proceeded to take it. After I was done, I got the result right away. 100%. Nice. I went back to YM and chatted with Ace some more. Now it's about 11. I finally decided to just write the paper tonight and turn it in late. I still have to shower and get something to eat before class. But for some reason, I finally opened MS Word, and because I was so happy with the result of the quiz, I just started typing and wrote a paper on Reservoir Dogs. Next thing I know, it was four pages long and looked pretty good to me. And it's not even 12 noon. I took a shower, went to Sac State, had lunch at the Cafeteria and head on to class. I'm starting to float on air.
In class, we just turned in the paper, and watched Run, Lola, Run. After the film, we had the usual discussion about the movie. All these postmodernist crap and psychophysiological effect that the director was trying to evoke. It was all blah-blah-blah to me. I was still thinking of getting new tires.
Our class usually ends at 4:10, and the professor usually uses all this time, sometimes she'll even go on after 4:10. Today, she actually let us out early. So I head out to Les Schwab to get an estimate for two new tires since I noticed the other front tire is also bald. There were other tire centers right next to Les Schwab (Sears, Big O, Good Year, Tires4Less) and was planning on getting other estimates. But the estimate I got was reasonable so I decided to go ahead and get it done there. It's only a little after 5 and I've finished all that I've got to do today. No failing marks, no late papers, and no more flat tires. Boy, life is good.
Now, it's only 6 pm and I'm already home posting a new entry in my blog. And I can watch TV tonight with no worries. I am a happy man!