Yesterday was a crammed day. This is usually how my schedule looks on fridays:
9:30 am wake up
11:00 am class
12:00-12:15 grab lunch
12:20-1:40 commute to Los Angeles while eating lunch in car (p.s. one must be highly skilled in order to complete this task cleanly)
1:40-2:00 walk from my car to my internship (free parking is a long ways up)
2:00-7:00 intern at film independent
7:00-8:30 pm drive home
HOWEVER IN YESTERDAY'S CASE THINGS WERE A BIT DIFFERENT, a) I have a mandatory campus reps interview at 6pm b) our usual TA is subbed by another c) MCIA is relying on me to bring their audition videos this year to the party later that night... this was my initial plan:
8:45 am wake up
9:30 am get gas for the long day
10:00 am get to class (i have to go to the earlier discussion because I have to leave my internship earlier for my 6pm meeting)
11:00-1:00pm eat/drive to LA
1:00-4:30 Intern
4:30-6:00 drive back to Irvine
6:00-8:00 pm Campus Reps
8:30- on pm MCIA
.... it looked like a good plan... at first. Little did i know that I should have thought it over through a FEW MORE TIMES.
* WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED*
- I made it to school at 9:40, after getting gas and looking all cute. So i thought i would treat myself to some cyber A breakfast. However, then i realized it was 10:01 and i was LATE TO MY DISCUSSION. I ran to my usual classroom, thinking that stacey must teach there for her 10 am since she teaches her usual 11am right after. but when i got there, the ROOM WAS DARK AND THERE WAS NO ONE THERE. Panicking, i asked random ppl (who were also running late) if they were in stacey's 10am. None of them were, and they also looked at me strangely.
I popped out my computer and did my quick research as to where the classroom was. IT WAS DOWNSTAIRS. i ran down, popped into class late and tried to be subtle. FAIL.
- The drive to Los Angeles wasn't bad. I stopped by albertsons and bought a monster since the drive usually puts me to sleep =/. I got to my internship early (at 12:30) and i started to work right away.
- It was all fun and bunnies until the other interns and i were in the basement, packing up some bags for the spirit awards next week. I told them that I had to be in Irvine by 6. One of them looks up and says, "you should have left an hour ago!!!" That's when i realized... stupid me... LA RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC. Not only that... it was freaking RAINING. It was 3:40 and I told Maisha (my internship supervisor) that i had to leave. One of the other interns suggested that I don't take the 405 back, rather, go on the 10 to the 110 to the 91 to the 605 to the 405.
... whu-what??!
- So if anyone knows how i drive around unfamiliar areas, they know that i get incredibly lost. Plus i don't have a gps system. I decided to go with the new complicated freeway, thinking that even though its a longer way, at least i won't have really bad traffic.
...
i was stuck in traffic for THREE HOURS. I never wanted to shoot myself in the head as much as i did in the rain and traffic. I had to call a few people to reassure myself of the right direction. And then i called matt to tell the campus reps coords of my situation. I honestly thought that i would be able to make it, but i was more than half an hour late.
6:50 pm after trial and error, i finally found the meeting place for the campus reps thingie. the gas tank i filled up in the morning was just about gone by now. I ran to the mesa MPR and apologized profusely with some of the reps. They said it was okay and to just join in on the next activity. I made it just when they were halfway done, and at this point i was unsure if i was able to make enough of an impression. I was quite sad.
By the time I got to the MCIA Valentine's get together, i was dead exhausted. Patrick had been calling me a number of times (without my knowledge) because i had the zeta year auditions. But it was good to end the day with family, watching the history of MCIA (it gets more embarrassing to watch my delta year audition every year), and eating yummy chicken katsu and barbeque from L&L (thanks KDuh). I came home at around 11:30 and crashed.
What a day.
I guess what it really comes down to was an epiphany i had when I was trying to make it back to Irvine from LA. Sure, i was pissed off that not everything was going according to plan, but at the same time, there was a reason why everything wasn't going the way i wanted it to. Whatever made me decide to go the other way, sure it was horrible, but at least i know an alternative way back home. Plus, the most important part was I realized how many people were trying to become campus representatives at the meeting. I really want the job, but maybe everything that has happened has told me that if i don't get it, it really wasn't meant to be. And then i realized... i'm okay with it.
Whatever happens will happen, and despite all of our attempts to arrange our lives how we want them to (like how i do, plan all the time), unexpected things come up that are sometimes our of our control. With that, instead of feeling defeated, just know that there is a reason and purpose as to why it all came about that way.
Trust the process. =)
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