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