Did
Follow the PT's command to try squatting
Love it and also regret it a bit
Ice
Nap
Bail on our evening plans

Didn't
Hook up with That Guy to discuss his awesome idea
Work on the book even though I was in the house all day
Act like a grownup with a cold instead of a whiny kid
Completely neglect my chores
Become a fan of 90 degree weather

Did
Get an emailed hypothetical business pitch from That Guy
Possibly watch a woman abandon her kid in the subway (but probably not)
Endure the PT trying to dislodge my pesky femur from my hip joint
Ice a lot
Get cleared to try squats
Punch Husband in the foot for re-en-sicking us with another mild cold
Go bathing suit shopping
Nap
Discover that sweat interferes with my trackpad

Didn't
Actually make it to the evening lap swim
Ascertain whether the kid was older than he appeared
Say anything after seeing something
Work on the book
Figure out how That Guy's brilliant idea could work
Go by the gym
Ice enough to make it not sore

Did
Walk three or so miles before going to the office
Tabulate some survey results
Upload 240 pictures from last night's workshop
Geek out on delineating project area boundaries for data collection
Feel a little sick
Wait on the corner for 5 minutes so I wouldn't have to chat with our landlord
Return to a sweaty, sweaty house

Didn't
Respond to any of the "Obamacare isn't a big deal" people
Sit silently through our client meeting
Know what to do with my blank
Leave when I said I was going to
Pay much heed to the mention of a possible raise
Write

Did
Spend 13 or so hours at work
Give 10 and 5 minute calls to get people to leave on time
Put together a pretty darn good public meeting
Devour lamb meatballs at home

Didn't
Completely restrain myself from laughing at Boss Man's running-mouth affliction
Go outside
Screw around much at all
Forget to blog

Did
Stand watch over a bunch of slow readers on the train
Do half-depth lunges!
Get that deeper-than-pain pukey feeling
Work work work
Sing about evil, scurvy love

Didn't
Nap in the stairwell
Get out of work before 8:30
Go to the gym
Dazzle anyone with my phone-scrabble prowess
Go outside much

Did
Regret all that peanut butter
Remember that China Mieville is not my favorite
Do lots of work all day
Call Boss Man just slightly on some egregious bullshit
Enjoy a day without Lady Boss
Punk out of the gym because it was late and I was tired
Remember that Aaron Sorkin is really good at that thing

Didn't
Have time to make progress on finding the next office manager
Screw anything up
Remember to put our camping trip on the calendar
Fall asleep on the train on the way home
Object to the slightly smarmy
Remember to hate my job
Write

Did
Clean every damn thing
Take a shower and dress up fancy to go to Fairway
Bug the neighbors by singing at the top of my lungs for hours

Didn't
Play very much at all

Did
Sleep until 9:30
Get pleasantly annoyed by an article
Have lots of sore bits, mysteriously including the other hip
Go on a five mile mosey
See a small herd of papier-mache bison at BIGNYC
Make a little girl cry by petting her dog
Watch the civil war recast as a fight against vampires

Didn't
Do any chores
Lay around the apartment all day
Clean anything
Write
Make an effort to see people
Comment on women wearing rompers loudly enough that they could hear me
Understand why there were fireworks

Did
Wake up at the normal time
Get a timely preemptive reprimand about trying to come back too quickly in the gym
Head to the office on a Friday
Get an actual signed contract for the first actual, legit planning project we've had in the year and nine months I've been working there
Solicit unprecedentedly prompt feedback from Boss Man and the client
Go to the gym
for upper body fun
Freak out on the way there because I was scared
Grin uncontrollably when someone told me my push-ups were perfect
Revel in a quick rainstorm
Relax at home

Didn't
Respond appropriately to Lady Boss's glee at seeing me at the office on a Friday
Write
Tell the PT I'd already tried air squats and lunges
Let being scared stop me
Go to an acquaintance's birthday party
Get a dog yet

Did
Read absurdly pretty prose on the subway
Continue to screw up ever so slightly on the project I'm managing
Take a long field trip to Queens to talk about sewers
Catch Office Managerette's awesome musical farewell
Wait fruitlessly for comments that did not arrive
Feel a little nostalgic-jealous
Make a 70-point scrabble move
View a short film about the ongoing detective efforts of Jane Tennyson

Didn't
Make small talk with Boss Man the entire way to and from Queens
Let Ex-Office-Managerette leave with the company credit card
Go shmooze at an after-work architecty solstice party
Refrain from marking up an intern's terrible writing
Go to the gym after work
Write

Did
Completely take over the hiring process
Organize a couple of meetings
Start reading a new book on the train
Receive praise
Compile a list of hilarious cover letter quotes
Make many people laugh loudly with it
Come home and sweat

Didn't
Hire the guy who was "looking to move a head"
Get vowels in any of three simultaneous scrabble games
Comment on blog posts
Hit the gym for CSA pickup or any other reason
See anyone other than coworkers and Husband
Write
Get a dog

Did
Have a nice time getting poked in the gut this morning
Make myself all kinds of useful at the office
Inadvertently misplace my surly attitude
Go to the gym after work and ride a bike to nowhere
Avoid eye contact with the trainer who works out at CFSBK
Test to see if things still hurt
Watch Stick It for possibly the third time

Didn't
Engage fully with a new PT patient in the elevator
Manage not to regret it all damn day
Go outside much
Mentally prepare for the return of both bosses tomorrow
Write that big old story
Play with dogs

Did
Clean before breakfast
Bring my gym clothes with me to the office
Do some work of some kind
Play a little scrabble
Escape the office at lunch to read more silly sci-fi book
Read a couple of articles on my phone
Sift through an intern's mess of data and ugly maps
Spend quality time with a cup of ice

Didn't
Hurt myself while sleeping
Do anything to avert another Desperate Hiring Event
Infodump about the office to Husband
Swing by New Gym after work
Wear something other than jeans
Write

Did
Wake up at 9:15 thinking it was already too late to do something cool with our Sunday
Finish the book I was reading
Start an even sillier one
Write a little
Explore new parts of the enormous cemetery
See the parrots that live there
Spend quality time facesnooping my friends' kid
Help forestall some CSA overload panic
Have an argument about whether my imac's nonexistent AI could simultaneously be possessing Husband in our living room and be skydiving in Japan.

Didn't
Spend $90 on a ferry to a beach in Jersey
Go to the gym again
Pack up and move
Remember to turn the oven off after making dinner
Burn the house down
Respond to MoM's second email
Play with dogs

Did
Keep sleeping in
Feel good enough to forget all about inhaling drugs
Smell like summer
Watch Tom Cruise play himself with great awesomeness
Nap in the sun in the park
Facesnoop Ex-Coach
Kick some ass at facebook scrabble
Watch Helen Mirren solve another tricky crime
Pet a dog for a second
Read
Have a pretty great time lazing around

Didn't
Make time for writing
Save the last of the bacon for Husband
Feel bad about giving him minor plague
Dress warmly enough for the movies
Look out for dog poop
Confront the jerks who kept accidentally kicking their soccer ball into sunbathers
Quite finish all the chocolate in the house
Neglect stretching and icing

Did
Sleep in
Get poked in the belly
Easily make conversation with the PT
Try to shake the feeling that healing delegitimizes the original injury
Sit in the sun among tourists and synthesize some vitamin D
Brave CFSBK to rescue my shoes
Discover that the spin bike is more complicated than it seems
Wimp out of being Only Girl in Testosterone-land
Feel happy about my first workout in a month
Fight back against the onslaught of CSA vegetables
Rock out on a Friday and watch The Princess Diaries 2 with Husband

Didn't
Go to work
Write
Act obnoxious toward even just the loud tourists
Find my face on a Banned for Bad Attitude poster at the gym
Talk to anyone there
Get a head start on any chores
Make exciting weekend plans
Get a dog

Did
Work work work work work a smirk work

Didn't
Ride a unicorn

Did
Sleep in just a little
Start to adjust to the meds
Leave a totally unnecessary message on the allergist's voicemail
Work on project stuff all day
Sit near the embodiment of lassitude on the train home
Tie a weight to my foot and lift my leg up and down
Spend eight intimate minutes with a cup of ice

Didn't
Go to a gym
Make a dent in the CSA vegetables
Write
Think my own thoughts
Get Boss Man to review the product that's due tomorrow
Cough up a lung
Get a dog

Did
Wake up at 5:30, panicked that I was late
Spend an early hour with the physical therapist
Disappoint her
Get permission to stretch revoked
Accidentally bring a see-through shirt for work
Spend the day bookkeeping in my T-shirt
Get Bosses to do some paperwork
Find evidence that we should move to Seattle
Cough myself a little hoarse
Crash into a nap
Finish out the day with some ice massage

Didn't
Breathe easy
Successfully do leg rotation exercises
Do the most onerous of the paperwork
Give people a hard time when they totally had it coming
Restrain myself from posting inappropriately on the gym blog
Write
Talk with friends

Did
Grudgingly accept hard evidence that yes, drugs make it better
Get to work on time
Force Office Managerette to learn how to research stuff
Write a lot of thrilling invoices
Do a Responsible Adult thing
Get a new cookbook in the mail
Indulge in Monday Night TV gluttony

Didn't
Fall asleep from the sheer tedium
Actually cough out any brains
Suddenly understand why we must Talk about Mad Men as if it were Serious Stuff
Write
Interpose myself in the hiring process
Respond snarkily to comments on the Professor's blog
Call the brilliant-seeming allergist
Go to the gym I joined
Play with dogs

Did
Find a brilliant-sounding allergist with unknown insurance acceptance
Get all nebulous, again
Get a nice email from ex-New Coach
Cook some mighty delicious CSA bounty
See a completely incoherent movie
Witness the aftermath of a cab crashing into the Union Square Cosi
Enjoy a zany Canadian buddy cop movie
Give the blasted asthma meds another shot

Didn't
Play games
Get to spend non-movie time with That Guy
Enjoy the sudden smell of sewage wafting through our apartment
Do any writing at all
Either skimp or overdo it on stretching/rehab work
Walk impressively fast at any point
Get a dog

Saturday, June 9

Did
Dream that we had a baby
Enjoy some delicious nebulized albuterol
Comment on The Professor's blog
Join a regular gym where you can show up whenever you want
Buy a bunch of books
Watch kids running around a playground
Remember that it's got to hurt if it's to heal
Get my Fairway on
Stretch and ice
Clean the stove

Didn't
Head to Governors Island for a participatory art festival
Stay in the Slope to see the Pride parade
Eat the pita I was given
Play games
Nap
Work on the book
Feel sad about a pretty unproductive day

Did
Almost shake the new inhaler side effects
Head downtown in workout clothes
Get a really painful massage
Get to do some exercises
Brave the horrors of Old Navy
Nap for quite a while
Ice and stretch and ice
Go for a walk right when it started to rain

Didn't
Hear a word from ex-New Coach
Go to the gym
Work on the book
Apply for any jobs
Think about moving
Play with dogs

Did
Enforce my zero tolerance policy for side effects
Get the presentation finished in time
Bite my tongue when someone looked at five slides of constraints and then complained that we hadn't discussed constraints
Start rethinking the presentation
Write a job description for the office manager job
Feel annoyingly sick all day
Think about tradeoffs
Write a goodbye-and-thanks email to New Coach
Get kisses from the landlord's dog
Nap hard before dinner

Didn't
Ice as much as I'm supposed to
Hurt
Continue medicating
Join a regular gym
Work on the book
Go outside
Steal Husband's book

Did
Make the early train on time
Find out from a PT that yes, Virginia, I am injured
Laugh at all the muscles that spasmed during the gentle ultrasound
Spend 15 minutes wrapped in a giant icepack
Receive absolution
Do project work all day
Giggle over Office Managerette's abrupt resignation
Have a nice talk with Boss Man about the hunt for the next office manager
Enjoy a basically non-asthmatic day thanks to new meds
Avoid getting roped into a networking event
Wrap more ice around me

Didn't
Write to New Coach to explain the latest news
Sleep enough
Lie to the PT even just through evasion
Realize that Ray Bradbury died until getting home from work
Work up the courage to read the gym blog's explosion of posts
Think about the book
Quite finish everything for tomorrow's meeting
Pick up our mighty CSA haul from the gym
Pet any dogs

Did
Act like a grownup and make a PT appointment, even though it was intimidating
Bookkeep all day
Breathe into a tube for the allergist again
Make my coworkers jealous with the smells of savory second lunch
Share a laugh with a guy masturbating on the subway steps
Write in to the gym blog and instantly regret it
Get a nice surprise when someone agreed with me
Add coconut to my list of probable nemeses

Didn't
Do battle with spiders before breakfast
Do any project work
Laugh loudly at Lady Boss's description of her "solution" to the office management problem
Get around to writing up any invoices
Clean even just the grossest parts of the apartment
Work on the book

Did
Have a productive project conversation with Boss Man
Incite a meeting of upper management with their consultant guru
Gather more evidence supporting the tree-nut-allergy theory
See a guy about my hip
Get a prescription for physical therapy and a potential diagnosis
Miss a co-worker's birthday serenade
Finally get my pretty red lifting belt in the mail
Beat Husband at Set

Didn't
Get fired for Thursday's somewhat grumpy email to the higher-ups
Annoy the client any more by pushing more meetings back
Convince the project team to sketch some damn concepts
Abstain from cheesecake
Lie to the sports med guy at all
Work on the book
Resist the charms of watching all of Sunday night's tv in one go

Did
Sleep in and then find out it wasn't even terribly late
Read books on the fire escape
Daydream about moving to where the outside is more accessible
Play with Husband
Take a walk and discover we live in a neighborhood
Do some not-so-onerous chores
Seriously contemplate cleaning the grossest part of the stove
Eat a box of strawberries

Didn't
Take the drastic step of actually cleaning the stove
Work on the book
Go exploring
Spend much time outside
Play with dogs
Spend much time feeling sad

Did
Help That Guy with the easiest move ever
Gorge on giant burgers afterwards
Eat bread and then get super grumpy and tired
Go to a really disappointing science fair
Remember that I'm not actually so interested in robots
Wish there were Philosophy Book Clubs instead of Mediocre Fiction Book Clubs
Take an epic nap
Listen to our upstairs and downstairs neighbors hanging out in the yard
Watch Twin Peaks
Lose at Dominion

Didn't
Convince That Guy to finish the whole move in one day
Enact physical violence on people engrossed in their iphones
Avoid feeling bad about not being friendly with our neighbors
Get cajoled into attending our gym's book club by someone I like
See super cool robots in action or the quantum levitation display
Work on the book
Go out at night
Figure out the dog situation

Did
Sleep in
Have interesting dreams
Call the allergist about some failing asthma medication
Write a couple thousand words
Fool around with dumbbells
Get weird looks from some ladies on the street as I walked with my dumbbells
Offer to help That Guy move
Slightly weird out the landlord

Didn't
Go to the gym
Contact New Coach
Leave the house for more than a walk around the block
Go totally stir crazy
Keep doing stuff when it hurt
Congratulate Ex-Roommate on keeping his kid alive for a year
Play with dogs
Sweat

Thursday, May 31

Did
Make an appointment to see an actual doctor about my hip
Actually do work
Write an email to Bosses about Cute-But-Useless Office Managerette
Cheat at phone scrabble
Win

Didn't
Make the client very happy
Get invited to have lunch outside with the others
Work on the book
Play with dogs
Blog