It is just before 12 noon on the eve of a three-day weekend. This is the worst of all the eves in my opinion. Christmas Eve, if you happen to celebrate the accompanying holiday, is filled with good will, cheer, happy anticipation, gluttonous feasts, etc. New Year’s Eve is filled with hope, drunkenness, good cheer, and wanton hedonism (because we’ll be good tomorrow). All Hallows Eve, or Halloween, is probably the best of all the eves (those are the same things right? All Hallows Eve and Halloween?).
But the eve of a three-day weekend is always pretty obnoxious. I am only four hours into my work day and it feels like I’ve been in the office for eight. I am so bored that I’m not getting any work done and am distracting myself instead with blog reading (ohvic.com) and putting my hair in stupid styles to see who is too polite to comment. Here is the first style I tried:
Not that great, is it? It was better in real life. I mean, it was awful, but I couldn’t really capture the awfulness using the paint program. And now my hair is just down anyway because I got tired of this particular game.
I have work to do but I don’t feel like doing it. Yes, as someone else pointed out, I do like my paycheck, but that doesn’t help motivate me at this point in time. All I seem interested in doing is eating all the food I brought with me for the day, taking a nap, playing Wii, and maybe reading my People Magazine. It doesn’t help that my boss is in a different office over 400 miles away today and will be on PTO for the next week.
I kind of want to go and make some popcorn but there are women in the break room who I am sure have seen me walk back and forth five or six times already and I don’t want them to get suspicious. I would be suspicious if I noticed the same person going back and forth five or six times in the span of 30 minutes.
Maybe I’ll go get a 5-hour energy drink from the gas station down the road. Anytime you say ‘from the gas station down the road’ you know you are onto a winning idea. Of course, 5-hour energy might not be the best thing for the sore throat I’ve got from choking on my own spit yesterday. Hmm. Tricky.
Maybe I’ll rearrange everything in my cubicle.
I have a calendar in my cubicle (actually, I have three in my cubicle and two in my briefcase) from the HR department. It includes information on which “awareness” month it is and tips on how to be healthy. Last month was cervical health awareness month, glaucoma awareness month, blood donor month, and thyroid awareness month*. February has some really good tips on how to make inactive tasks active ones. For instance, I should squat often when cleaning my work space and updating my filing and ride a stationary bike whilst answering e-mails. I’ll put in the expense request form for the stationary bike but it might be awhile before I get that necessary resource so looks like I’ll just have to depend on tip number three, marching in place when on the phone, to get my activity. And if you have been keeping up, you know how much I love being on the telephone.
And if you were wondering, it is American Heart Month, Kids’ Ear, Nose, Throat Health Month, and Children’s Dental Health Month. I guess I should be really aware of little kid face holes for the next few days.
*Three of those apply to me because I have a cervix, I donated blood that month, and I have a sluggish, lazy, fat thyroid. But since when can it be multiple awareness months?
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