A Day in the Life of a College Graduate at Home

11:00 am: 

Wake up

11:01 am: 

Realize that it’s 11:01 am

11:01 am: 

Leap out of bed

11:02 am – 11:38 am:

Do household chores:

1. Feed dogs (Dusky and Ella)
2. Let chickens out (Little Dotty, Red on the Head, Drumstick, Blackie, Grey Boy, Eugenia, Ghost, Velvet, Nyx, and two that don’t have names yet. These names were from consulting my sister, and I quote: “Idk if I missed any or said any that are dead. But that’s most of them”)
3. Feed & water chickens
4. Find the cats and put them inside for the day (Chloe and Belle)

11:43 am:

Call your manager for the new job that starts in September and tell him your scheduling availability. He asks if you’ve downloaded the scheduling app, “When I Work”. You have. Spend some time after the call going through the names of your future coworkers on When I Work. Wonder if looking their names up on social media is a violation of privacy.

12:00 – 1:00 pm:

Lay back in bed. Retake the MBTI test (result: ISFP). Scroll on social media and realize that it’s back-to-school season for everyone except for you. Feel a little melancholy that you can’t experience the fresh, exciting first day anymore, and all the fun activities that are always happening on campus. Then remind yourself that social media is a lie and remember the reality of late nights doing homework and the slog of classes and deadlines. Feel better immediately.

1:15 pm:

Look in the fridge for lunch. Realize there are no fresh vegetables. Brace yourself for having to leave the house to get groceries. Despair.

1:17 pm:

Suddenly recall that your family has a garden! Rejoice.

1:17 – 1:35 pm:

Collect tomatoes, an onion, four eggs. Contemplate picking squash also, but then look at the portion of the garden overtaken by squash plants and get intimidated. Go back inside with bounty.

1:35 – 2:00 pm:

Make stir-fry tomato and egg on rice, a classic Chinese comfort dish. Start writing blog post while waiting for rice to finish.

2:45 pm:

Get too caught up in writing the blog post, check the time, stop writing to eat lunch.

3:15 pm:

Watch one episode of the Netflix anime My Happy Marriage. It is a truthful title but rather misleading about the depth of the plot.

3:52 pm:

Throw some overripe plums into the chicken coop. One gets stuck in the netting and the chickens can’t reach it. You decide to deal with it later.

4:07 pm:

Start watching A Knight’s Tale on Netflix (starring Heath Ledger). Pause and wander around the house for a bit to find crochet materials.

4:16 pm:

Secure yarn and hook. Go back to the arduous task of making granny squares, a project you started several months ago but then abandoned because a patchwork sweater requires So Many Squares. Contemplate changing the sweater into a sweater vest (less squares). Resume watching A Knight’s Tale.

4:45 pm:

Mother calls; the family is driving home from vacation. Currently passing through Colorado and will be home tomorrow. You opted out because being home from the Tetons is already vacation. 

4:45:52 pm:

Take Bereal.

5:38 pm:

Take a break from watching men in medieval armor stabbing each other with long sticks (jousting) by watching Tik Toks and feeding the dogs.

5:47 pm:

Notice that Ella is chewing on a… drum stick? Like a plastic stick for a drum? Realize that it is probably due to pent-up energy. Decide to take dogs on a walk.

6:00 pm:

Dog Walking Series of Events:

1. Dusky poops in your neighbor’s front yard at the exact same time you realize you forgot to bring plastic bags. You think about quickly walking away, then notice the neighbor looking at you through the window. Morals win, you knock on her door and explain the situation. She says no worries, hooray!
2. Start listening to Dune the audiobook. You’ve tried to read the book for the past two summers and failed both times. After recently discovering the joy of audiobooks, you cruise through the first 30 minutes of Dune and actually retain the information.
3. Break up one play fight where Ella does not know she is Big and Dusky knows very acutely that he is Small.
4. Ella jumps into a very deep portion of the creek, realizes very quickly she cannot touch the bottom, you spend a little too long staring at her struggling to get out of the creek before realizing you should help her. She does not get back into the creek for the rest of the walk.

7:10 pm:

Get back home, do evening chores:

1. Try to shut up chickens. Make too much noise in the yard so they think it’s time for food. They all flood out of the coop. They will not go back in. Give up. 
2. Let the cats outside for the night
3. Feed fish

7:30 pm:

Resume blog writing indoors while waiting for chickens to go back in the coop. 

7:41 pm:

Creep back outside. Notice the plum stuck on the netting of the coop, head towards it. Make too much noise again and hear the chickens stirring. Quickly run and shut the coop door. Untangle the plum in peace.

8:18 pm:

Finish writing blog post. The rest of the night will most likely consist of finishing A Knight’s Tale and making a few more crochet squares.

With peace and love!
Hanna

P.S. Let me know what your personality type is!