So, I wake up at 6 a.m. per usual on Monday mornings and drive to school.

However, around Temecula traffic stops. It doesn't slow down, it stops. However, I'm thinking to myself that it couldn't possibly be that bad, as it was only 7 a.m. at this point. I was sure it would clear soon. My car moved up a few feet. Stop. Another few feet. Stop.

Surely it would clear up eventually. Oh, and it did. In San Diego. Two hours of stop and go driving over 100 miles. Before I even got in my car this morning I had some soda. I had a diet Coke and diet Dr. Pepper. Keep in mind that these weren't small cans, these were the big bottles one would get from vending machines for two dollars each. I felt the effects of these drinks while stuck in this monotonous stop and go hell. I couldn't exit because I had to make it to work by 9a.m. I had missed all of the last week of work because of traffic and I had to make it this time. I considered the soda bottles I drank from as a way to get relief, as if it was a twisted recycling program of defication. No, I told myself. I had to go on. I was not an animal or a truck driver that relieved myself inside bottles or shoes or anything of that sort. I'm a man and men piss in toliets. Occasionally around toliets, but in the general vacinity of white porcelin objects.

Punching my crotch to keep the urine from leaking out my penis, I pull into the parking lot of my school. I was late, but only a few minutes late. After relieving myself in and around the facilities at my work I rushed to class. When I started talking to my students I noticed they were unusually quiet. I asked if any of them had down the reading. Only three of them out of a class of twenty raised their hands. I started asking them questions about the reading they had over a week to do in hopes of stimulating a discussion but it was fruitless. Thirty minutes into class I very angrily dismissed them. One of the ones that had been silent this entire time asked "What about our essays?"

For the first time in my life, I think my eye starting twitching.

I told them I need to review their grades again before I hand back any work and I dismissed them again with the words "Get out of here."

I hope the day gets better.