Hubert's Perfectly Normal Day.

> Check your TO-DO LIST.

You fetch your JOURNAL from your bedside table and open it up to view your TO-DO LIST. Your bedside table has been here the whole time, as was this window. And the fireplace. You know this to be true because this is your bedroom and you are very familiar with it.

Like everything else in your JOURNAL, your TO-DO LIST is written in your SECRET CODE. You make a new list for yourself every night before you go to bed and update it throughout the day to ensure you complete the myriad tasks YOUR JOB requires. You are very good at YOUR JOB, so you always complete your tasks on time and in a satisfactory manner. It would be very unusual for you to perform poorly at a task or to not complete it by the deadline. If such a thing were to occur, you would not be having a normal day.

The YOU of last night assigned the following tasks to the YOU of today:

(See the more legible version in your JOURNAL.)

When making this TO-DO LIST, you were surprised to note that today will be a very light day for you. Most days, the number of tasks you have to complete numbers well into the double digits and has, on many occasions, gone into the triples. Some part of you wishes that you had more tasks to do, such that you will not invite the possibility of being struck by something so atrocious as DOWN TIME.

You are not religiously inclined, but if there is still a GODDESS or some other powerful hand directing your movements, you surmise they either:

• have taken pity on you and wish to aid you in having a normal, uncomplicated day;
• are displeased with you and intend to punish you with DOWN TIME; or
• were too lazy to provide you with more tasks.

Well, that's quite enough musing on divine intent for one morning. You elect to begin your daily routine in earnest.