Got off on the wrong foot today. At least that’s what it seems.

First thing I realized after getting up this morning was that it was raining. Yet again. Now, rain isn’t necessarily a bad thing -except when it rains on Mondays or Tuesdays. That’s when my classes are on the far end of the campus, which means, I have a long way to get there. And when it rains, I can’t really ride my bike to class, and that means, I need twice as much time to get to work, which is twice as much time to get soaked by the rain.

Second thing, last night, I wasn’t able to get the copies I needed for class today, so I had to get them this morning before class. But you know how things work when you leave them to the last minute (which is why I usually do everything I can to avoid that) – they throw you for a loop. Now, in order to avoid that loop, I made sure to get up early enough, so I could go and get those copies done without stressing. But as it goes, when I came to the copy room, they’d just gone out of paper. No problem, I thought. For that very reason, I’d remembered to grab some money right before I’d left home. Because if plan A fails, you always need to have plan B ready. So, just in case the copier didn’t work, I’d taken money so I could stop by a copy store on campus – my plan B. Except, plan B didn’t work either, because at 9:15 in the morning, none of the copy stores on campus were open yet. So, I rushed back home, grabbed some of my printing paper, and then back to the copy room for the foreign faculty. That’s where I ran into one of my colleagues, getting ready for his own classes. And you know what? That’s when my colleague told me about a genius idea to spice up my next lesson, which is just what I’d been really needing for that lesson. So, after all – this morning’s loop turned out to be quite beneficial.

Still got my foot wet; soaked in an unavoidable puddle on my way to class. Talking about rain, the wrong foot, and lots of loops today. Haven’t found the reason to be thankful for the wet foot loop. Yet. But I’ll keep looking …