For example: I am almost out of tobacco (not that I have no more tobacco, but that I have no more unopened pouches). On Tuesdays, I'm done with classes at 2:55 PM, and my office hours are over at 4:45 PM, and Buffalo Tobacco Traders only closes at 7 PM, so I was planning to get a new box of pouches after my office hours today, but at the end of my office hours, after I made one 'phone call about my Spring semester classes (because the offices close earlier than the tobacconist's) and read my e-mail and checked Facebook, the sun had already set! It was barely 5:30 PM ... it was also cloudy, so I decided to not walk the few blocks today after all. It feels really lame to drive everywhere with the car, so I'm now planning to get the tobacco tomorrow instead.
And that's just one example. I have the unsettling feeling that, all semester long, I have had no time to do anything at all on days when I have had classes; as a result, every little thing that comes up during the week has to be done on the following Wednesday; as a result, I end up being really busy on Wednesdays as well!
And tomorrow is even worse than the normal busy Wednesday: We're into November now, and there's snow in next week's weather forecast, so there's no telling whether Wednesday next week will still be suitable for walking.
I know that driving in the middle of winter is just as certain as taxes at the beginning of spring and death at the end of summer, but tomorrow might be my actual last chance of the year to get stuff done on foot.
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