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Day in the Life: Nathan Ford ’17

Photo+by+Eve+Lyons-Berg.
Photo by Eve Lyons-Berg.

6:45 a.m. — Stick head in sink.

Photo by Eve Lyons-Berg.
Photo by Eve Lyons-Berg.

6:46 a.m. — Wake up.

8:00 a.m. — Speak Spanish in French class.

9:00 a.m. — Speak French in Spanish class.

10:00 a.m. — Envy the birds’ ability to fly somewhere warm.

10:02 a.m. — Wonder why they don’t.

10:15 a.m. — Text my brother, text my other brother, text my third brother.

10:30 a.m. — Have a heart attack after realizing that my photo of my sister has been watching me get naked in my room for several months now.

11:00 a.m. — Be the world’s greatest Sauté/Pasta worker.

12:30 p.m. — Fall asleep while cooking someone’s pasta.

12:?? p.m. — Wake up cooking a different person’s pasta.

2:00 p.m. — Build bEast campus’ first official snowman of the ’13/’14 year. Name him Harvey.

2:10 p.m. — Shower  =  musical debut.

2:45 p.m. — Readin’ up on my TAM.

3:30 p.m. — Think up an excuse to go down to the basement to sing my little heart out. The acoustics, man.

3:38 p.m. — Get caught belting Lascia Ch’io Pianga in the basement. Don’t even care.

4:42 p.m. — Self-Torture time with Mireille et Robert [from “French in Action”].

5:00 p.m. —Start to think about preparing myself to maybe soon begin to almost study for my stats quiz.

5:05 p.m. — Nap time!

6:15 p.m. — Head to dinner. Hold a moment of silence for the dearly departed Harvey Snowman.

6:30 p.m. — Listen to my friends extoll the wonders of CTC and chocolate soy milk.

6:31 p.m. — Think about how much more interesting Dan Davis’ [’16] life is than mine.

7:01 p.m. — Shamelessly plug for Infinite Coincidence. We have some shows coming soon!

7:27 p.m. — Forget to email this article to Yishi Liang [’16].

8:09 p.m. — Parks and Rec.

9:00 p.m. — Bible.

9:01 p.m. — Think about Jesus.

9:45 p.m. — Text my sister, text my other sister, email my third sister, call my fourth sister.

10:00 p.m. — Think about going to bed. Watch Whoopi Goldberg instead.

11:30 p.m. — Holy crap I have class at 8 a.m.

12:12 a.m. — Sleepy-time.

1:15 a.m. — Remember I forgot to send this article in.

1:16 a.m. — Think about the future.

1:17 a.m. — Cry.

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