It’s getting closer to that time of the year again- when the weather’s cooling down, and the annual Gilmore Girls-watching marathon, which inevitably has us all in a chokehold for some reason, is coming out of its hibernation. This year, to commemorate the start of Gilmore Girls Season, we here at The Voice have taken it upon ourselves to imagine what a day in the life of Rory Gilmore at Irvington would look like.
6:30-8:00 a.m.
After a late night cramming for her AP Lit test, Rory sleeps through her alarm at 6:30 in the morning. Before she knows it, sunlight is streaming through her window, and a full hour has passed.
She’s missed her bus- but it’s okay! Lorelai has left the keys to her Jeep on the kitchen table with a note reading, “Just in case you woke up late today. Pls pls don’t get my car hit <3!!” Grabbing the keys, she gets in the Jeep and zooms to school, only to have a deer pounce onto the road and ram into the side of her mom’s car on the way there.
8:00-8:30 a.m.
Despite the minor vehicular deer mishap, she arrives to school with a few extra minutes to spare. The true catastrophe? The horror of having missed going to Luke’s for coffee this morning. To fulfill her required daily dose, she stops at Maple Leaf Donuts. Her eyes bright-red with caffeine withdrawal, she orders three large cups of espresso and chugs them on the spot. She then runs across the parking lot and crosses the street, dodging the plethora of half-asleep teenagers in sweatpants and Crocs trudging around, and arrives just in time for first period.
Flex
After acing that Lit test, she heads to the library for Flex. Once inside, she takes a deep breath, allowing the aroma of hard-back covers and printer paper to penetrate her nose. Immediately craving the smell of books, she runs up to a shelf, picks one up, and fanatically presses her nose into it. By the time the bell has rung, she’s read through half the books there and reorganized them all.
Lunch
Rory steps outside to witness the entire student body of Irvington sprinting out of their classrooms toward the cafeteria like a stampede of feral zoo animals. Although she almost gets trampled, she eventually makes it inside the cafeteria, only to do a full 180 when she sees the fruit and vegetable section at the front. God forbid she ever touch one.
On the Pavillion, she sees Kirk whizzing past in a golf cart- he has just started working as the new campus supervisor. As he stops by, he says, “Ever since I started my job here, the kids have gotten me into this thing called Brawl Stars- have you heard of it?” Before she can reply, he zooms away again, with one hand on the steering wheel and the other furiously tapping away on his phone. A few moments later, she hears a sharp SKRRrrRRTt and turns around to see Kirk almost plow into the girls’ bathrooms.
1:30-3:10 p.m.
When the bell rings again, Rory somehow gets roped into the PE class. Before she knows it, She’s getting shoved into a team with 7 sweaty guys and they’re playing a game of basketball. At one point, she thinks she accidentally passed the ball to the other team (oops!). She leaves when her perfect face almost gets implanted by a flying basketball going 40mph.
It’s safe to say that Rory Gilmore would have a hard time adjusting to Irvington- something that even copious amounts of coffee couldn’t fix.
