Smartassery

I realize I’ve been ranting a lot lately. Finally something fantastic has happened!

It is been a good week at work, yesseri. Except for the fact that my whole face is dripping mucus, I look like shit, and feel like a wounded bull. But, hey, the managing directors are out and about in their endless quest to convince bloated coffers across the nation to the value of investing on our barren portfolio companies. That means, I get to catch up on things…for a whole four days!

So I do a little bit of this (Solitaire) and a little bit of that (Spider Solitaire). The first day, for example, was an aggregate of small, insignificant tasks, designed solely for the purpose of making it to 5 PM:

1. Play a few games of Solitaire, 30 minutes.
2. Write posts for my blog, 2 hours (hey, there’s a lot of research involved)
3. Make me a snack of pita and hummus, 5 minutes.
4. Eat it without hovering over my keyboard replying to stupid e-mails from the idiot boss, 30 minutes.
5. Do some research for the school paper, 1 hour.
6. Lunch, 2 hours.
7. Read last week’s Newsweek and Time, 1 hour.
8. Go home early because I’m sick. Yay!

Entire days of doing nothing can get quite boring. So I had to come up with bigger dilly-dallying activities. So on the second day, I caught up with my Netflix queue which had been halted for a bit and watched North Country (tear jerker), Happy Endings (funny in that hollywoodesque sort of way – which means, not that funny), and Eddie Izzard‘s Dressed to Kill (a freaking “laugh out loud and choke on happy tears” riot – run out now and rent ANY of his DVD’s…go on, I’ll wait).

On the third day I wrote enough postings for my blog to cover next week. Overall a very productive day. I also went to the library and borrowed a book on how efficient our legal system is in sending innocent people to prison. Which then prompted me to spend 3 more hours scouring Amazon and Ebay for books on how to make it through a police interrogation. You know, in case I ever need it.

On the fourth day I couldn’t come up with a single good reason to drag my body down to work and phoned in sick (to myself since the office is empty).

Isn’t life grand?!

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