The 14th of October

One of my luckiest/ most stressful days I've had in a while. Probably should be the other way around. One of my most stressful/ luckiest days I've had in a while. Stressful because I was unprepared for class(there seems to be a pattern here) and lucky because it turns out I didn't really need what I didn't have for the class that I was unprepared for. Last Thursday, I was supposed to have a book called Lost In Meritocracy. I, of course, didn't have it. I was about 5 minutes early to class and began discussing with my fellow students who brought the book. It turns out, everyone in the class other than myself had a copy. Fantastic. So, in the remaining minutes before the class began and our teacher would walk in, I wondered if it would be worth it to leave class and go down to the bookstore to buy the book I needed and be a few minutes late. I decided to stay and pray that our teacher wouldn't check for our books. So, the clock rolls to 12:30. Then to 12:35. I begin to regret not getting my book from the bookstore, and the people sitting around me are saying it's not too late and I should go for it. So I do. I run to the bookstore, ask the lady at the desk for the book, wait for her to return, and nearly explode when she comes back empty handed saying they no longer have that book in stock. Frustrated, I then run back to class while I try and put together a good excuse for why I'm late and why I don't have a book. Once I get into the hallway of my class, I notice that half of my class are walking out of our room. Long story short, it turns out that our teacher wasn't gonna show up to class that day. Lucky!