A Summary of Life for a Day -or- An Emergency Manual For What You Should Be Doing and What it Should Look Like, respectively.

1) Wake up. Open your eyes and let the blood flow back to the arm deprived of flow and stinging from the weight of your own head. Yawn and let the variety of light from the sun in the morning repaint the walls around you. Here you are. You are in the middle of life. You are alive. And you stink. You need a shower. And your breath tastes bad in your own mouth. You need a toothbrush. And you need to pee. You need a toilet or a tree. Quickly. "Was I holding this all night?"

2) Make your first major moves of the day; dictate your own tone and pace. Be pleased or dissapointed with the things that take shape around you. Spend some time thinking about something that might be considered really irelevant in the scheme of things, because that is more satisfying and interesting than worrying about the "important stuff." Find some time to enjoy the fact that what you are participating in is inconsequential and will not save the world, at least not anytime soon.

3) Then do whatever it is you do. Love it or hate it, try to do it well enough to sleep soundly at night.

4) Allow any functions that might happen out of necessity to happen with little dispute. This might include relationships with other people, eating food and drinking drink, and a variety of bodily functions that should not necessarily be shared publicly.

5) Go somewhere that can feel at least something like a home. Step in the door and breathe deep. Sigh deep sighs and if you must click your tongue and shake your head about some bad hand delt to you, do so vigorously and follow it always with a light laugh, feigned or natural.

6) Strip down naked. Slip into something more comfortable, but not the "something more comfortable" that they talk about in some movies that involves intricate systems of leather or metal rings. Try a "something more comfortable" that requires only basketball shorts and old worn t-shirts.

7) Lay down on something that at least looks comfortable even if it is not. Like a Sunset Continental Collection matress.
Turn out all of the lights and be okay with the temporary loss of any shape or form for the things around you.
Lay your head on your pillow and be okay with who you are and what you've done.

8) Listen to songs until you fall asleep.

9) Wake up and realize that your songs ended long ago, and you should take off the headphones and set aside your ipod in order to make sleep the priority.

10) Fall back to sleep. Sleep hard. Sleep with your mouth open and drool sometmes, but not all the time.

11) Repeat.

*If anything should happen to you outside of this scenario, should anything go exceptionally well for you or particularly bad for you, remind yourself to "stay frosty" and to keep it cool, then refer to step number 10 when the opportunity provides itself.