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6:12 AM
Got up, made the coffee. Started cleaning stuff, got bored once everything was in a series of piles. Had a bagel. Got #1GF! out the door to work. Started making a list of stuff that needed to be done. Couldn’t decide whether to brush my teeth or call for a haircut. Wondered why I was debating. Continued debating back and forth and finally opted for the haircut. Read my email. Paid some bills. Showered. Started updating my contacts list. Called a friend and asked him what people without jobs do. He said that I was asking the question two months too early.
10:30AM
I swore it was lunch time. Shut the air off and opened the windows. Talked to parents on the phone while eating an apple. Made more piles. Made myself a sandwich. Closed the windows and turned the air back on. Thought about taking a crap and then farted and gave up on the idea. Decided to go to the supermarket. Opted to go to the market that was 5 miles away rather than 4 miles because the drive is nicer. Wandered around with old people and ladies with kids. Wondered if I was the youngest shopper with a credit card in the store. Wondered why the old people were working and the shoppers weren’t. Wondered if anyone wondered why I wasn’t working.
3:00 PM
Brought in the bundles and cleaned the dishes. Caught up on some blogs while listening to my heavy metal high school playlist. Took out the trash. Got the mail. Tracked a package. Submitted a bug for the Democracy Player. Moderated a ton of channels over at their Channel Guide. Started wrestling with Python. Shut of the air and opened the windows again.
7:04 PM
Sat for an hour to watch Attack of the Show and have a cup of tea. Did a minimal number of pushups during the commercials.
9:56 PM
Moderated more channels. Answered more e-mails. Realized that I somehow just blew through my first day of being a hobo without really relaxing.
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June 5th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
I usually do all sorts of random busy-body type things on my days off - with a little bit of relaxing here and there. Sometimes if I’ve worked pretty hard on the days preceding, then I’ll relax.
It seems like you got some serious ADD going on though. Did you deviate from your list of things that needed to be done? Or did you actually finish the list and fill in the rest of the time with miscellaneous stuff?
June 6th, 2007 at 5:36 am
that sounds about right for a first day off! i’m sure you’ll relax sooner or later. first you have to get all those mangy detail jobs that you’ve had in the back of your mind all done and then you’ll relax like whoa.
i find it quite funny that when you post in june, my google reader writes, “jon jun.” it’s not that funny at all but i giggle somewhere inside…i do.
June 6th, 2007 at 7:47 am
I did what I could on the list and will be working on more of it until its done. Unfortunately, I keep adding items. the goal is to burn myself out on errands, leaving nothing to prevent my brain from sinking into whatever it needs to sink into.
I’m finding that if there is no one telling me to get things done, then getting things done is relatively relaxing. Ok. Off to run more errands…
June 6th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
“Did a minimal number of pushups during the commercials.”
Gah! You need to start working on the one arm push up. Take a basketball (or something that size) put it at arm’s length to the side. Now do pushups with one arm in close, and one on the ball. Switch sides after a certain number of reps. Keep working on this till you no longer need the ball to assist.
See? I can still give you workout suggestions. Thank you Al Gore for the interweb.
June 6th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
you’re a really terrible bum.