Why is it? February 8, 2007 ~ 12:37 pm
Posted by Julie in : Academic Office Monkey , trackbackWhy is it that when I don’t have to go to work, even the tasks that I’ve been dreading the most (reogranizing the hall closet, cleaning up the pantry cupboard, cleaning in general) seem easy? I’ve been avoiding these things on weekends for over a month now because I just couldn’t deal with them. Yet because I don’t have to go to work today (or tomorrow, or the day after that, or the day after that, or the day after that, or even the day after that!), I’m suddenly full of energy and ready to do some serious redding up of the house. What the hell is with that?
I’m also helping a friend pack up her apartment this afternoon and actually looking forward to it. Well, I’ll miss her when she moves, but I don’t mind the thought of spending the afternoon engaged in manual labor awful. Perhaps not my first choice for the first day of vacation, but it’s not bothering me at all.
I don’t hate my job by any means, but I think these are all signs that I definitely needed a vacation. So sad.
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well since you have all this energy and its the year of organization, come on down here. Philly is like a vacation.
I know of a place in New Brighton where you could put all that energy to good use.
Having to do your stuff on weekends sucks cause that’s “your” time. If you have vacation time during the week, then you can get your stuff done during the day and have time left over at the end of the day for some “me” time.
It’s just so much easier to get stuff done without a job in the way.
Here here. I can’t do anything in the evening because I’m just too tired from my office job (boo hoo), but days off … totally manic.
I’m the same way, a few weeks ago I went home sick in the afternoon, and instead of resting I cleaned like a mad woman. I never do that on the weekends.
Make sure though to take some time and enjoy your days off too and do something fun.
you know, you may CALL yourself a new yorker now, and hold yourself up just a little higher than the rest of us non-new yorker tourist types…
but you go ahead and say “red up,” and we all KNOW that deep down inside you are and always will be a western PA girl.
ESC- Beat me to it!
Do you know the grief I get when I say “red up” something down here? Thanks for the smile this morning Julz!