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