Day in the Life

November 6th, 2009 | By Michael A. Hunt | Section: Features

7:00 a.m. — Wake up. Well, alarm goes off, but…

7:30 a.m.-8:45 a.m. — Shower, get dressed, quick breakfast, quick check of email/text messages, etc.

8:55 a.m. — Walk across to the Center for Religion Spirituality and Social Justice (CRSSJ) from Younker, realize that the sun was deceiving and I should have grabbed a jacket or sweater. Ohhh well.

 9 a.m. — Check and respond to emails while preparing for morning meetings (forgot to send out an all Smounker email about the upcoming construction).

9:30 a.m. — CRSSJ weekly staff meeting where we mainly check in with each other about what everyone is working on.

10 a.m. — Residence Life Coordinator roundup meeting where we discuss only the joys of working in a self-governing community. LOL.

11:15 a.m. — Pick up college mini-van in order to pick up food for the 12:00 Faith-in-Action Dialogue and to later do shuttles for Community Meal.

12:06 p.m. — Faith in Action Dialogue, of course we are running on Grinnell time.

2:15 p.m. — Meet with students who came to my walk-in counseling time.

2:47 p.m. — Finish making and copying Smounker’s bathroom readers

3 p.m. — Call travel agency to begin booking details for Chaplains’ Office Spring Break Trip.

3:45 p.m. — Meet with students interested in helping plan Winterfest 2009.

5 p.m. — Get stood-up by student who wanted to get into the trunk-room.

5:30 p.m. — Text other RLC’s to see if anybody is down for dinner.

5:36 p.m. — Check-in on student who has not been doing/feeling well.

6:00 p.m. — Eat by myself because nobody loves me. Just kidding! Eating with RLC’s or random students I find in the dining hall.

7:00 p.m. — Either find out what is happening on campus or go back to my apartment to catch up on TV shows on either broadcasted TV or on hulu.com (I love that website).

8 p.m. — weekly student staff meeting.

8:24pm — Receive a call from my mom wondering how I am doing.

9 p.m. — Catch up on “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Glee”, “the Office”, and “Desperate Housewives”.

10:50 p.m. — Realize that I have along day tomorrow so better get to bed.

11:30 p.m. — Finally decide to go to bed (after reading a few pages of “God’s Politics” by Jim Wallis).