I am trying to apply the above philosophy to my current work environment. I'm not sure how well it's working, but then it's only the 2nd hour of day 1 since adopting this philosophy. You know how you decide that you're starting a diet and you tell yourself you absolutely, 100% are not going to eat chocolate, no matter how many aliens descend to Earth and promise that by eating that chocolate you will save their planet from destruction? This is the same resolution I have: I will not complain about my job. I will suck it up. I will drive on.
I hope I can hold out longer against the whining than I usually do with the chocolate (hey, aliens are people too! Shouldn't we all do our part to ensure that they have planets on which to reside? I mean seriously here people, think about how overrun by aliens we would be if I didn't eat that chocolate, cause if their planet gets destroyed, you know they're coming here with a seriously big can of alien whoop-ass as retribution for not helping them out. So really, you all probably owe me, and my numerous failed diets, for your very existence on your happy little plot of surburbia. Don't worry, the chocolate high was thanks enough.)
So since I'm not whining about work, I now need to try and come up with other things to comment on. Unfortunately, this relegates me to things like how many hours I spent on homework this weekend (15) and how few hours are left on our DVR because we spend so much time on homework that there's no time to do important things (like watch TV). Of the two, I'm guessing the DVR is slightly more interesting. (But probably only slightly).
I think actually that we're up to 14 hours free now because I slacked off on Saturday after pottery class and caught up on two CSI: Miami episodes (watched them in fast-forward mostly because they've really started spending a lot of time with their "cool" science montages. Now, I love science, and the high-tech, not-real-yet science they use in CSI is cool, but I don't really need fifteen minutes per episode of seeing the various CSIs clipping Q-tips and pushing buttons on machines so that they magically find positive matches. No matter how cool the background music is while they're doing it.) I also watched the CSI: New York where the little kid is confused between comic books and reality. It seemed really familiar to me, but the info from the episode implied that it was new. Regardless, I watched it some in fast forward as well because, well, I really thought I'd seen it already. Then I did also manage to delete a few things that accidentally caught basketball instead of whatever it was we actually wanted it to catch.
Speaking of basketball - I usually manage to live in a little hole all through March, avoiding what I can of any of this madness. However, living as I do in the stompin' ground of George Mason, and knowing that they're a fun underdog story, I may actually watch them play in the final four, cause that's just cool. Tim's cousin sent us a picture of their little girl all dolled up in Gator gear (cause she and her hubby both graduated from there) and I felt compelled to explain to her that I was fairly sure that constituted a form of child abuse. Then I had to ask if she'd seen the movie Big Trouble (with Tim Allen in it). That has to be one of the funniest movies. Ever. Prompting me and Tim, periodically, to look at eachother and ask, "Is that a goat?"
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I watched the basketball game the year that Mississippi State University made it to the Final Four. We played /amazingly/ well for 75% of the game. Then basically stopped playing and lost. The difference was SOOO stark that a lot of people were wondering how much we got paid to lose. I still shake my head in befuddlement.
ReplyDeleteOn another note, I was perturbed to see that the TTLB Ecosystem is acting funny. =YOU= are a multicelluar microorganism,... like me? Cant be right. Was there a rebalancing of the categories or something????
Beth,
ReplyDeleteI'd like to support you in your effort to not complain about work. I am currently on a similar campaign myself. Several times a day now I have to give myself a pep talk.
"Come on self. Suck it up! So what if you are the one getting the work done, and some slacker is telling you you aren't a team player. You can take it self. Rub some dirt on it and get back in the game son!"
So I'd like to support your efforts, but I can't. Rather, I'm going to be the little alien. By listening to your complaints (and your reasoned responses) I am encouraged and uplifted. I realize I'm 'not the only one'. Other people are going through the same thing, and they are surviving!
So go ahead. Eat the freakin' choclate already!
Ok Paul...no being a bad influence or I will tell on you in Sunday School. :)
ReplyDeleteHowever, the fact that I'm on this campaign should be enough to help you realize that you are SO not the only one. Surviving, well, that remains to be seen. Today I'll put it this way: I'm looking forward to leaving a little early so I can go to the DENTIST.