Not to be corny, but I have an incredibly corny story about a high school teacher who always told us to «dominate the day.» He was my world history teacher and a football coach, usually a red flag. If you’ve never been to a school with incompetent coach teachers who were unnecessarily cruel to unathletic children, I’m guessing you’re not from the South. This guy was not like that at all and was kind to all of the students in his class. He asked a «Question of the Day» every day to get to know the students better. I don’t know of any other teacher that would assign a class to write a parody of Africa by Toto to comment on African imperialism. He proved that you could be funny, a good teacher, athletic, and not cruel to unathletic children. A real renaissance man, as it were. 

This coach always told me to dominate the day, so I’ll ask you to do just that. The day has no power over you: it’s all yours to dominate!