Things You Do in the Phelps, I Mean, Elizabeth Phillips Academy Center When You Are Alone
- Look around, see there’s no one coming, yet hold the door open for a bit. Your Second Grade teacher told you to do nice things when nobody is there to commend you. This must count, right?
2. Figure you might as well get your work done, drop your backpack at a seat in Grill and unpack your computer and notebook. Go through five pencils until you find one with lead in it. Put the empty ones back into your backpack where they’ve been there since October of prep year. Take out your calculator. Untangle your headphones. Decide you can’t plot a parabola without a Twix. Debate the virtues of Twix vs. Oreos while you wait in line. Settle on a Sprite. When you sit down again, check OLS on your phone because you still haven’t memorized when this fat long block ends. (Who has?) See that your battery is down to 4%. Discover that you’re nowhere near an outlet. Repack your headphones, your calculator, your pencil, your notebook and your computer. Spill your Sprite.
3. It’s been three and a half minutes. You’re way overdue for an obligatory P.O. check, even though you’re aware that P.O. is closed, as it was the last few times you checked.
4. While you’re in P.O., talk to yourself about the posters. “Gee, I wonder who’s giving meditation... three weeks from now.” Make a frowning face with the unused thumb tacks.
5. Place a Mento on the arm of each chair in Agora. Decide you don’t want to give away all your Mentos and pick them up again. Realize you now have a tin of unhygienic Mentos and throw it away. Return to Grill to buy more Mentos.
6. Before you crack down and get back to work, you oughta check your email. Yes! A new message! And...it’s that IT planned work thing.