Today was a good day!

Well, what can I say. Today was a pretty good day for me. I have to start off saying that I love my job this summer. We had a "fundatory" meeting at Playtime Pizza. The first half of my day was spent devouring pizza, chugging soda, tasting ice cream, shooting lasers, and sitting on the toilet (yes, I had to share that lol). Anyway, I got a chance to hang out with my coworkers in a very comfortable environment. I even got a chance to see some competitive spirit in some coworkers, which surprised me. Before our first game, the staff member challenged us to score at least 800 points. If we had achieved that goal, we would be granted a free game. Well guess what? Three of us scored over 800 with yours truly scoring 912 points. I was pretty happy with that one. The second game wasn't as amazing, but still pretty good.

Although I had a pretty amazing time with my coworkers, my day was made when I hung out with my former AP literature teacher. Yes, I hung out with my English teacher.

She wanted to take both me and my former roommate to dinner. It was amazing. She treated us to a dinner at Red Lobster. But, before we even left the building she gave both of us a check for $100 each. The reason behind my misty eyes is that I currently have a phone bill very, VERY late. Pretty much, the check will pay for my phone bill, and I can text again (Yes, every college student's dream.). When we got to dinner, she explained that it was okay to bring out our alter-ego, the broke college student, because she would be taking care of dinner. She's awesome like that.

Talking to her made me realize how much I've grown, not only personally but intellectually as well. We talked about the good ol' days where I sat in her class dumbfounded on how to start my next paper or how to cope with crap of a paper that I produced. It all seemed like yesterday, but we both (my roommate and I) knew that significant time had passed. Here we are three years later talking to the lady who opened our minds with a spark of elegance, wisdom, class, and scholarship.

I have to say from eating pizza with coworkers to eating shrimp scampi with a fellow scholar and our mentor, today was a good day!