9:00
She laughed in that strange Gabrielish mixture of profound and morbid levity after rising up from her second plunge into the pile and brushing off the leaf , grass , and weed concoction . Now , with four days into the school year already passed , she was still avoiding the purchasing of groceries in the afternoons . She told herself that her artwork was more poignant when the sun was at its fullest ; but really it had been from an avoidance of the yellow school buses that she would have encountered . Subconsciously she wanted to spend as much time with him as she could so she began to disregard the policy of him going to bed at 9:00 . She would allow him to play games until he fell asleep on the sofa forcing her to carry him off to his bedroom . Since that autumn of a year ago she was living in the present moment through most of each day and disregarding the future as entirely as a mortal could . She repudiated any reality that went contrary to the motif of finding the entity through simple pleasures of the senses experienced in the present moment .