on purple and a timeline

a bit of a little public service announcement before i get into my rant: today people around the country are wearing purple to support non-violence toward, acceptance of, and remembrance of anyone struggling to be who they are. i personally have quite a few friends who are openly part of the LGBTA community, and i commend their courage and confidence to do so without fear. they are some of the most loving, thoughtful, compassionate, and gracious people i know, regardless of whatever sexuality they subscribe to. they deserve to love whomever they choose and share that with the rest of the world. for anyone out there too scared to say it, too afraid to be who they are, take comfort in knowing that it does get better. i’ve seen it get better for people i love, thanks for the unconditional support of close friends, family, and even strangers who don’t judge. go out and love. love whoever you want to, however you want to.

♥

and now, back to my regularly-scheduled rant.

i would like to point out that my work day usually goes a little something like this:

7:52-8:06am: leave my apartment, convinced that today will finally be the day the va dept of transportation closes route 66 and route 7 to anyone but me.

8:07-8:25am: discover, sadly, that the above certainty was false. sit in traffic.

8:32-8:36am: weave in and around my parking garage until i finally reach the third level. park. realize i forgot my ID. curse.

8:40-9:30am: dilly-dally around on the computer while i eat my breakfast and suck down coffee #1. usually this involves complaining about the traffic.

9:30-10:45am: get insanely busy. do all of the tasks that have come in through my email overnight. work really hard and feel like i earned a break.

10:45-11:20am: take said break. usually read some website about dating or owls. laugh uncontrollably but try to keep quiet so coworkers don’t think i’m insane.

11:22am-12:37am: get bombarded with some insane meeting with my manager and a client or a partner, just as i’m about to dig into my lunch. stomach growls during meeting. loses focus from drop in blood sugar. become supremely irritated.

12:40-1:30pm: complete all the work discussed during the previous meeting. get angry about not getting to enjoy lunch in peace.

1:30pm – 2:30pm: do nothing. maybe write a blog post about how i’m doing nothing.

2:30-3:30pm: talk to manager, do menial tasks that i put off during the last hour, like time sheet updating and writing a lot of things in my planner. sometimes have a call with client or partner.

3:30-4:15pm: edit one of the reports i’m working on. get excited about the idea of getting to leave between 5 and 5:30.

4:16pm: immediately get staffed on something urgent. receive calendar invite for meeting at 5:30. curse again.

7:30pm: arrive home. throw things on couch. look around the kitchen for 35 seconds and decide to eat pretzels and peanut butter (hey, carbs and protein) because the idea of cooking anything that would take longer than 1 minute to make it exhausting.

7:32-11:47pm: possibly go to the gym, usually just watch law & order, play around on the computer, talk on the phone about how i did really nothing all day. maybe take a shower.

11:48-12:30pm: read. set alarm for 4:45 and pretend i’m going to get up for yoga. set a second alarm for 6am in case i want to go to the gym. set third alarm for 7, knowing damn well that that’s the one i’ll actually wake up to. reflect on the fact that i could have gone to bed at 7:34 after i finished my pretzels. pass out.

i don’t really have a conclusion to this except that if i were able to get tasked with everything i was going to need to do all day by 9am, i could finish my work by 5 and leave. since our busy season, i haven’t have 9 straight hours of work to do almost ever. obviously, since i’m blogging. i did enjoy walking past someone’s cube today and saw her gmail with 3 gchats open and the bloomingdales website open on the other screen. see, it’s not just me.

okay, so that was less of a rant and more of a timeline. but timelines have their place. and thankfully, my timeline tonight does not include pretzels. it includes FABULOUS WINE BAR DINNER with my FABULOUS lyss who got her job to move her down here for 2 weeks to work at a university so she can HANG OUT WITH ME. we weren’t scheduled to reunite for another month… but SURPRISE (and i think we all know how i feel about surprises)! i am too excited for this to be healthy.

i believe it is best summed up by this quotation:

‎”my boss said that i could go see all the sights in DC, and i said ‘sure’ which meant ‘no, i’m going to get drunk with my best friend all weekend.’”

and the weekend starts on wednesday, minus those 2 days of work in between. ♥

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