I have a view of my life that causes me a lot of aggravation. I don’t live life day by day, minute by minute. I live a week at a time. If the week started out crappy, it is very hard to turn it around, and I find myself wanting the week to end so I can start over on Monday.
In a way, this makes my weeks go by faster. I don’t know why, but I just can’t make my weeks last long enough. Whatever the case, this weekly schedule SUCKS when I didn’t have time over the weekend to plan my week.
I wish I could live day by day. Take today, for example. I look good (90 degree weather calls for skirts, which calls for heels, which calls for nice tops, which calls for make up, which all together equals a great outfit), I don’t have that many meetings today, and I made it to work on time. But I still feel like procrastinating. None of these things make me want to work any more than any other day when I look like crap, have a billion meetings, and I’m late to catch my morning train.
On those “bad” days I yearn for the “good” days. I fantasize that if I looked good, made it on time, and was well rested, I’d be more inclined to doing work. Sort of like being a character in Ally McBeal.
Signs that I am not a character in Ally McBeal:
- there are no people in my office with whom to have an hour’s worth of entertaining drama.
- Nobody cares what I wear at work (refer to point #1)
- NPR is my only onsite company.
I’m sure I’d be able to come up with more tell-tale signs if I had ever watched the show.
I’ll leave you with one of the only quotes I remember from Ally McBeal (captured while channel surfing), said by Lucy Liu’s character Ling Woo:
“I’m rich. I only go to work to wear my outfits”
Mmm yeah, not as ideal in practice as it sounds in theory.
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