Alex looked up from his desk at the clock.
'[i]8:00,[/i]' he thought to himself. '[i]Professor should be here any minute. Wonder which poor sap they'll have this year.[/i]'
Reaching into his back pocket, he took out his phone and looked at it. There was a new message, which he ignored. It was most likely some unimportant junk that would just make his already bad day, worse. 
He pulled out some paper, and a pencil and started drawing.