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

Did
Go to work really late
Run out of things to do within 10 minutes
Only catch 75% of Lady Boss's mistakes in a fee proposal
Get to hear that "I'm so disgusted with you" snorty sound when the proposal got sent back
Fix it
Submit to her subsequent condescension
Rage quietly in the ladies' room
Fantasize about quitting
Hurt

Didn't
Quit
Wig out about hurting
Get to go to the gym
Complain to Husband for more than half an hour or so
Have any more bootleg Canadian tv to watch
Write anything
Do any fun arty stuff

Did
Write a 150 word pulp fiction intro for a goofy NY Times contest
Sit at my desk for a bunch of hours
Visit the Body Shaman
Get complimented on my breathing AND on the wolf video
Read about community organizing in NYC
Spend quality time in a staff meeting
Get Boss Man to actually talk to the intern
Cook food
Watch tv
Play silly games with Husband

Didn't
Apply for any jobs or fellowships or good stuff like that
Blatantly do job research while at work
Fail at any of the Shaman's mysterious contortions
Learn much with my brain about why what we're doing is working
Develop an appreciation for the phrase "laundry list"
Send any bratty emails
Quit
Spend enough time outside

Did
Get sprayed with perfume on the subway by an oblivious seatmate
Meet our meek and mild Michigan intern
Turn her over to Lady Boss for the extraction of graphics
Fiddle away another day of thumb-twiddling tedium
Look at job ads while at work
Make a dude smile through the subway car window with FlirtyPower(tm)
Accidentally act rude toward our upstairs neighbors
Indulge in house-to-myself fun
Sing half-remembered arias in the shower

Didn't
Apply for a job I found
Act resentful toward my bosses
Spend a lot of time with the intern
Make a very good mentor
Let her know that my real job as a planner is bookkeeper
Have to sit through a boring staff meeting
Hurt

Did
Sleep really late
Sit in the cemetery and think about writing
Wish I'd spent a little more time on the end of the wolf video
Crack up laughing every time I watched it
Help Husband procrastinate by watching tv in the middle of the day
Win at Mr. Jack!
Only dread going to the office tomorrow a little
Shuffle through Fairway with the other Sunday night zombies
Feel really pleased with the weekend

Didn't
Hurt myself at all
Spend any time in pain
Actually tell annoying girls in the cemetery to shut up
Apply for any jobs
Work on arty blog
Worry about opportunity costs

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Did
Engage in much financial planning over breakfast
Make and then ignore a responsible Weekend To-Do List
Spend ten hours on my Fun & Exciting assignment
Curl and crouch like a contortionist
Make this!
Crack myself up

Didn't
Get bummed about the results of the financial planning
Act as irresponsibly as I would like to
Take a trip to Queens to watch people do burpees
Go outside for more than 5 minutes
Leave the project only half-done
Go crazy from spending ten hours on it
Cook or do the dishes
Work on finding a new job