Did
Sleep in almost until 8
Trade money for speed
Paint many things green including parts of me
Spend 3+ hours on a giant jigsaw puzzle
Emerge victorious
Receive unsolicited life lessons from a 26-year-old pixie

Didn't
Figure out which sink is OK for washing paintbrushes
Find out what happened to Coach
Get to the gym
Fail to figure out the hard stuff
Get the car towed
Ask if Producer would reimburse me for that giant roll of gaff tape

Did
Spend about 13 hours at work
Double up and write punch lists in a taxi
Wonder why Producer is paying me if he doesn't trust me to do my job
Almost finish the research report
Eventually go home

Didn't
Get much information out of the Parks Admin I went to interview
Let Lady Boss totally derail me with bogus chores
Shy away from delegating
Forget anything super-important (as far as I know)
Get to the bottom of the Coach mystery

Did
Potentially get my first actual planning project at my job!
Let Body Shaman poke me toward healing
Gossip about Coach's mysterious disappearance
Compile lots o' research
Try to get Boss-Man to look at it
Rescue some proposal components
Stay late
Cry at the end of my friend's book
Laugh my ass off at Drawception

Didn't
Respond to Producer's attempt to make my punch list for me
Totally freak out about being incredibusy all of a sudden
Finish the research package
Go to a gym
Watch a lot of tv
Spend time outside
Play with dogs

Tuesday, March 27

Did
Wear big ol' socks
Hurt annoyingly
Do some fancy-pants research resulting in improbable discoveries
Leave the office before 7
Find out that not everyone at the gym has completely forgotten me
Read about goblins

Didn't
Fix my silly shoulder myself
Let it bother me much
Slack on any of my long-term-boring-task list items
Shy away
Lift anything
Figure out a long-term plan for the gym
Write
Remember to blog
Get a dog

Did
Do a billion rehab stuff before work
Start reading my friend's fun book
Foolishly choose to wear sandals
Make lots of maps
Brave the stinky soap store after work
Waste time on teh intarwebs
Watch some thrilling Canadian sci-fi tv
EAT A COOKIE

Didn't
Resort to wearing my giant, fuzzy, black Office Socks
Get hounded by Boss Lady
Have music on, most of the time I was hiding in my headphones
Work on the play at all
Go to a gym
Have to fight off overeager salespeople
Miss any trains
Ever get warm again after the Fateful Sandal Mistake!

Did
Sleep in wonderfully late
Laze around in bed reading for over an hour
Use my TD pay to buy new tools
Take a truly excellent floor nap on Husband
Hear from Coach for what will probably be the very last time
Realize that all that drama probably had very little to do with me
Lose twice at Lost Cities
Cook dinner

Didn't
Do any work whatsoever
Clean
Hold a grudge
Write
Worry
Feel guilty about taking the whole day completely off

Did
Get up at 7
Spend 4 hours making cables for lighting instruments
Get physically displaced by a "helper" who assumed I couldn't help lift a platform
Hastily stick together a couple of flats for the last 2 walls
Spend an hour listening to Directress wonder what colors to paint the walls and floor
Spend 2 hours total on train(s)
Manage to run through Cortland St station fast enough to catch the elusive downtown R
Cruise Fairway at 9pm

Didn't
Slap the helper
Maintain good posture while making cables
Feel sanguine about getting everything finished next week
Go to a showing of a tv pilot That Guy was in
Do all my rehabby stuff
Nap effectively
Get to spend enough time with Husband

Did
Sleep in 'til 7:40
Drive all over the city
Get my first sunburn of spring
Marvel at the dick-swinging at our site visit
Wonder why the person who knows everything is always a beta
Pay $25 in tolls to haul my tools to a church basement
Turn on my secret Getto Tech Power(tm)
Stand up a bunch of flats that have very little business standing up
Impress some people
Smell like work
Have fun

Didn't
Remember that Tillary to 3rd is not really a shortcut at all
Forget how to do the things I do
Come up with much to say at the site visit
Betray that I'm just a bookkeeper
Freak out that I only had a scribble to build from
Fail to delegate effectively
Refuse help when it was helpful
Hang out to hear why our brand-new walls probably don't work for Directress
Go grocery shopping
Plan the meals
Play outside

Did
Try to convince the Office Managerette to do office-managing type things
Attempt to understand Directress's narrative of changes to the set
Toy with the idea of observing rehearsal after work like a responsible TD
Encourage a co-worker to pursue other options
Try to think through a cut list without understanding the set, tools, or materials available
Make a lot of maps, do some zoning calculations, and moonlight as a bookkeeper
Talk to someone even more clueless than me about tomorrow's site visit

Didn't
Resist cracking my neck and making it worse
Respond when Lady Boss loudly talked about me from across the room
Wear the same jeans I wore every other day this week
Go to rehearsal
Write
Sound like an idiot at any point
Get a dog

Did
Retroactively become project manager of our new project
Get interrupted by Urgent Bookkeeping Nonsense! Again!
End up double-booked for Friday between work-work and play-work
Make a bunch of maps
Go to Vanity Gym and lift on my own
Deliberately take it easy with things that could probably have hurt me
Get an email from Coach after 2 weeks of silence, canceling a session we never scheduled
Inadvertently watch two hours of British crime drama

Didn't
Watch the tail lights of the R train pull out of the station
Come out and tell Lady Boss that yes, managing the office should be the Office Manager's job
Get bored
Probably take the lifting as slowly as I should
Respond to Coach as petulantly as I wanted to
Write anything
Play with dogs

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Did
Stay late at work, happily fighting with GIS

Didn't
Remember to blog until leaving the house for work on Wednesday

Did
Almost leave the house on time
Use Shamanic techniques to reduce the hurty by about 70%
Work on actual projects all day
See a particularly relevant TED talk
Think about writing a story
Watch Iron Man instead
Hang out with Husband

Didn't
Manage to coax Boss et al into meeting a deadline
Understand what the heck Directress was trying to tell me
Go outside
Refrain from eating junk
Apply for any jobs
Play with dogs

Did
Listen to the sweet strains of thunderous vomiting over breakfast
Turn the kitchen table into a drafting board
Make my director happy
Call my mom for her birthday
Brave my first non-guided workout in a year
Squat
Hurt myself a little
Nap
Watch Helen Mirren triumph for women's lib

Didn't
Spend nearly enough time outside
Do anything stupid at the new gym
Do as much work for the show as I could/should have
Remember to send Mom a card or anything like that
Spend non-TV time with Husband
Write anything
Clean
Play with dogs

Saturday, March 17

Did
Get up at 7
Go to my first rehearsal in six years
Cringe through a read-through
Tape some lines on the floor of a cold church basement
Confirm that I don't have to be at future rehearsals
Nap
Go grocery shopping
Once again remember to always fear the Crimson Permanent Assurance

Didn't
Let the snide come out
Provide fake emotional comfort
Mention the intensifying alcohol smell wafting off of one actor
Gain any confidence in the tech savvy of the producers
Wait for dudes to help me move things
Test drive any more dogs
Wear green or drink beer
Go to a gym
Hurt

Did
Read the play I'm TDing
Sketch some set ideas
Remember how to make a production calendar
Email Directress a lot of thoughts
Shop around for a new gym
Test drive a dog from the dog adoption van
Have a mini migraine
Cook dinner

Didn't
Work out at a gym
Figure out how my shoulder business affects what I can do
Responsibly do my shoulder mobility work
Adopt the dog
Tear the Mister Softee truck into teeny scraps of metal for drilling its theme into my face
Determine how to spike walls without a floor plan
Write any of this week's overdue stories
Feel crappy about myself

Did
Spend 12 hours in the office working
Sing Happy Birthday

Didn't
Go outside
Eat cake

Did
Spend the day jumping from one proposal to the next
Discover I have base maps due tomorrow for a project
Love my three minutes outside on an errand
Realize I forgot to actually send the proposal materials out
Go to my first production meeting in 6 years
Wonder what I got myself into
Play with my shiny new phone
Miss the gym

Didn't
Hear a peep from Coach
Contribute much at the production meeting other than Equity break rules quoted from memory 8 years after I last needed them
Do lunch outside with everyone else
Buy a fourth PATH ticket before realizing I could use my Metrocard
Seem to be allergic to the director's dog
Spend enough time with Husband

Did
Happily read astrology stuff over breakfast
See the best subway ad ever for "Mannish Water" flavor soup mix
Visit Body Shaman
Get involved in an actual project
Discover that MTA will refund you for lost metrocards
Sit next to Crazy Humming Lady on the way home
Do some super-fun Tuesday night laundry

Didn't
Have to talk to Body Shaman about the Coach situation
Quite figure out how to do some of her crazier moves
Look like an idiot for not knowing how to fulfill a nonsensical bookkeeping request
Successfully convey the proposal process to Newbie Office Manager
Write a story
Drop any balls
Cry
Apologize for myself

Did
Wake up really groggy from staying up until 1 and drinking
Drink too much caffeine and get a little weird
Work on a proposal for Lady Boss
Make a bus map that will never be used, but looks cool
Get all stressed out about seeing Body Shaman tomorrow
Worry that Coach secretly despised me all along
Remember that Husband is awesome and clear and honest communication is amazing and I am hugely lucky

Didn't
Resent Lady Boss at all
Do the laundry after work
Decide that going hungry was an appropriate punishment
Stay late to do the work I avoided by making the map
Get to bed early, as planned

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Did
Write a story about marriage and isolation
Continue to love David Wain
Hula hoop on the sidewalk
Eat a burger (with a bun!) and fries
Get a little tipsy
Get That Guy to come hang out at our apartment
Watch one of the best movies ever
Get hired as a tech director for a show next month

Didn't
Resolve the whole gym-and-coach situation
Have any second thoughts about the TD gig
Guess right about That Guy wanting to see a silly romcom
Look for jobs
Cry
Sit inside all day and sulk
Neglect the neighbor's cats

Did
Let Husband's reinterpretation of events prevail
Interview for a tech director gig in Jersey
Visit a kee-razy suburban mall
Spend another swangin' Saturday Night at Fairway

Didn't
Entirely trade in sad for mad
Probably talk enough at the interview
Write
Do anything social

Did
Get what I had coming to me

Didn't
Let him see me cry

Did
Wake up stiff and sore
Stretch the stiffness out
Head to work late
Attend a meeting for a project that involves legit community input
Get roped into a massive last-minute promo submission
Stay at work until 9
Pinpoint one huge area of postural deficiency
Annoy Coach with emails
Watch food network for more than an hour

Didn't
Remember to give out business cards
Introduce myself to the cool-seeming community activist planner
Figure out how to correct the posture thing
Get worked up about it
Apologize
Write a story
Feel bad about it

Did
Break Husband's favorite glass before breakfast
Wear my worst pair of jeans to the office
Visit a muddy pier for work
Get paid to be outside looking at ducks in beautiful weather
Enjoy my phone's increasingly mercurial behavior
Pick up 25lbs of frozen flesh at the gym and carry it home
Hyperbolize my evil thoughts in tonight's story
Pore over an anatomy book instead of doing rehab stuff
Lay on the floor and breathe deeply
Pet a puppy

Didn't
Abstain from emailing
Finish all the tedious bookkeeping
Work on the diagrams
Get to lift anything or talk to Coach or the Body Shamans
Exclaim over a gym-mate's new baby
Rage
Cry
Inventory the meat

Did
Wake up with a 10-minute head start on the day
Use it to dump a cup of tea in our stove
Punch myself in the jaw while getting dressed
Get through the client billing in record time
Do crazy Pilates stuff for Body Shaman
Celebrate a friend's success
Write a story about a fireman and a turtle
Enjoy multinational paranormal tv programming
Eat far too much chocolate
Learn a new word

Didn't
Get to work on yesterday's planning diagrams more
Go to my friend's book launch, half the country away
Understand why the Pilates stuff made me better
Learn enough to help myself
Forget everything immediately
Lose faith

Did
Get a decent amount of sleep
Spend the day super tired anyway
Find out some long-gone project proposals are still in the running
Sit through another long staff meeting
Get some planning diagrams entrusted to me!
Agree to feed Upstairs Neighbors' cats
Feast
Write a somewhat better story

Didn't
Worry about jobs
Let a hyper-animated powerpoint presentation go without comment
Express exasperation with Flighty Archi-girl
Get very far on the diagrams
Obsess over anything
Avoid hurting myself a bit
Let myself get stuck in bits of the story that need more development
Forget to have fun

Did
Sleep late
Practice moving my arms in circles
Clean the kitchen
Write a pretty bad 15-page short story
Fold some laundry
Watch more British man-eating ghost tv

Didn't
Go outside
Send any emails whatsoever
Pester anybody
Waste the whole day on the internet
Look for jobs
Worry about work
Feel guilty

Did
Sleep a long time
Spend 3+ hours on a job application that was automatically rejected
Re-submit it by lying on the "have you ever had this exact job before" question
Enjoy the pointlessness of doing so
Send a third email down the chute to chase two others
Fantasize briefly about a world in which I don't embarrass myself daily
Protest an egregious Con Ed overcharge
Go outside for a long walk even though it seemed too late
Rock out at Fairway
Swap British TV about man-eating ghosts for Canadian TV about fairies

Didn't
Head gymwards to observe the Black Sea's Xfit games day
Compete in a powerlifting meet
Fly to Costa Rica
Look for other jobs to apply for
Get a dog
Work on any writing
Get shortlisted in the NYT fiction contest
Hurt very much at all

Friday, March 2, 2012

Did
Get both excited and nervous about going to the gym
Deadlift a whopping 25lbs
Cry
Do some unsupported pistols
Sit on the sidewalk, all hangdog, for 20 minutes or so
Make an impromptu cave back at the house
Fantasize about running away to Costa Rica
Hurt
Send a petulant email
Worry about the position of my head

Didn't
Relinquish all sense of obligation toward my job
Buy plane tickets
Do enough breathing work
Deserve a response
Apply for any jobs
Respond to a very sweet FB-message wedding invitation
Play enough
Accomplish anything

Did
Entertain myself at work
Mostly avoid Lady Boss
Sit with terrible posture all day
Botch an attempt at talking to the intern on my way out
Win at Mr. Jack through use of smarts
Do an almost-parallel one-legged squat, freestanding
Remember to blog after I was in bed with the lights out

Didn't
Have any of my work rejected
Do anything incredibly useful
Have to play bookkeeper
Play with dogs
Spend much time outside
Get expected reactions
Worry