I Love Global Warming
God, the weather has been great. Right now we have a bunch of windows open. The cats are sprawled out in front of them, basking in the warmth and the smell of the outdoors. I love waking up to the sound of birds and to the early risers doing their thing -- when they aren't too loud, of course.
Tonight Paul and I will walk across town (about 2 miles) to get Indian food and to see Syriana. Of the 5 Best Pictures nominated, we've only seen Brokeback Mountain and Crash. I wanted to see Capote, but Paul said he'd rather see something political.
I don't have much to say right now. I just woke up from a nap and my brain is numb. Usually I blog while I'm at work. To my horror, I arrived last Monday morning to discover that our firewalls had been upgraded! No more blogging at work! At least no more 'blogspot' blogging at work. I'm so sad about this.
On the other hand, I was really productive last week. For the past year or so, I've kind of been in a lazy funk of denial, waking up everyday and telling myself how much I hated my job, how it was so ordinary and unchallenging, how I only want to do the minimum of what's expected of me, how I'd much rather write and kill time until we (probably) move to NYC.
And something strange happened: I started liking my job again. I can't say why exactly. I think I just got fed up with a lot of the disorganization within the department, and I wanted to help clean house a bit. Maybe it's because spring is here -- the time for cleaning up shop, the time for renewal.
I dunno. I might as well roll with it. It feels good to be useful.
posted by Karin @ 5:34 PM
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3 Comments:
Hey! Congrats. Always good to have a surprise revelation that the ole job isn't so bad. And you know They Say that writers write a lot more when they have jobs than when they have plenty of time to loaf around and write. True story! There's gotta be a way around that firewall? can you talk real nice to the computer guys? That's what I used to do at my old job--iTunes, MSNBC video stream and Yahoo Music here I came...
Ah, no. I can't talk to the real nice computer guys because I am one of them... on the other hand, I do know how to bypass the firewalls. I'm just afraid of getting caught.
And yes I am much more productive with writing when I have about 10 billion other things I SHOULD be doing. And surprise, when I SHOULD be writing I usually decide to do something else, like get on my hands and knees and scrub the kitchen floor.
At least I have productive distractions. I never do mindless stuff like pick belly button lint or watch Jerry Springer.
I feel you on this one. I had to demote myself into a place with no computers before I could be productive at all.
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