Wednesday, May 30

Did
Hurt way less after last night's crybaby time
Do some hip work before work
Wear a somewhat inappropriate dress
Enjoy people's reactions to it
Do a lot of paperwork
Tune out the continuing office frenzy
Turn some overripe bananas into cake-facsimile
Listen to music I'd forgotten about
Mess around with dumbbells
FaceStalk Former Coach

Didn't
Work on the book
Waste the whole day fooling around
Forget to pay everybody
Screw up people's deductions again
Contact New Coach
Join a regular gym
Tell MoM about not getting the cool job

Did
Wake up with the sun and the birds
Watch a scene from somewhere near the end of a relationship on the subway
Wash up in the middle of continued office frenzy from last week
More or less totally fail to concentrate
Play some killer scrabble words
Find out how to collect the printer history for a year
Aid and abet the scapegoating of former coworker Archigirl
Humor a 5:45 request that I write a proposal that was due before yesterday
Whine about it all to Husband
Get rewarded with an awesome plan of action

Didn't
Require help to get water for tea
Have to battle any spiders for use of the bathroom
Get to watch for water snakes over breakfast
Manage to get much done amid all the kerfuffle
Get to quit
Call the allergist
Contact New Coach about what to do next
Put away the camping gear
Write
Resist the possibility of solutions

Saturday, May 26 - Monday, May 28

Did
Hike four miles with a 50-lb pack (twice)
See a water snake and a couple of woodpeckers and a frog and a deer and a lot of spiders and flies, oh my
Lay around on a rocky beach for five or six hours
Make some progress on identifying food sensitivities
Run in and out of the lake
Sleep in late and then worry that I should have gotten up earlier
Daydream about moving to the woods somewhere
Only sit completely still in traffic for half an hour coming home
Celebrate being home with Peruvian delivery

Didn't
Spend any time at all on the internet
Read any news
Lose any of our supplies to marauding mammals in the night
Turn out to have screwed up the tent by trying to fix its seams
Stay totally dry in the downpour
Destroy my hips with the hiking and all
Lose any bathroom duels with spiders
End up getting the possibly cool-seeming job
Use my blog for mean after-the-fact millipede jokes
Get too disappointed about the job (yet)

Gone Camping
See you Monday or so.

Friday, May 25

Did
Set up a house inside our house
Spend several hours in a quest to re-seal the tent seams
Go on a Paleo adventure to Bierkraft
Pack pack pack pack pack, test, unpack, repack
Guard most but not all of our food from fridge-raiding bears

Didn't
Enjoy pain-free range of hip motion
Stretch like a good girl
Spend much time on the computer
Read or write
Go to the gym
Worry about jobs

Did
Write a proposal from scratch and get it out the door
Do a little bookkeeping
Put together a couple hundred precedent photos
Still slack off for most of the day
Buy some seam sealer and tent stakes after work
Wonder why I wanted to listen to gloomy music
Get reminded that today's an anniversary of sorts
Sing

Didn't
Fear the rain
Get found out as a total slacker yet
Let the inside voice out
Work on the book
Make the all-important camping list
Win or lose at scrabble
Get too sad about not playing with dogs, 'cause they'd be wet

Did
Show up pretty nearly on time
Participate in some morning office frenzy
Do some work
Remember what New York smells like in summer
OD on the Food Network when left alone
Learn an exciting secret
Beat Husband at phone scrabble again
Do some stretchin'

Didn't
Use my home-alone time productively
Work on the book
Figure out what to do about jobs
Visit the gym, that long-lost hangout
Totally heal in every way yet
Get a dog

Did
Beat all my bosses to work, for once
Unexpectedly get my hip largely fixed by Body Shaman
Speak up in the interminable staff meeting
Fail at signing an excellent petition
Get excited about going camping this weekend
Say goodbye to Dr. House

Didn't
Get rained on
Find out who killed Laura Palmer
Let a guy on the train give up his seat for me
Totally ignore work in favor of phone scrabble
Propose to Lady Boss that she get a new office manager
Find out if That Guy is still about to be homeless
Work on the book

Did
Wake up half an hour late
Listen to the rain and dream of camping
Barely make the subway in time to be no later than usual
Combine surly and lazy in a reprisal of Worst Employee Ever
Beat Husband at phone scrabble
Get praised for work I did at least a week ago that abruptly became useful
Start a new scrabble game
Start an essay about quitting and then quit writing it

Didn't
Work on the book
Quit my job
Forget to thank my interviewers
Go back to the gym
Do anything worthwhile

Did
Get up at a normal hour
Work on the book!
Fantasize about quitting my job and just writing full time
Get a little whiny about it
Go see the Old Time Strongman Spectacular at Coney Island
See a guy pull a truck with his hair
Enjoy some crazy-pants subway antics on the way back
Spend the evening doing chores

Didn't
Have the promised Family Writing Time
Write the follow-up email to my interviewers
Clean the apartment
Convince Husband to show off during the audience participation
Touch the ocean

Saturday, May 19

Did
Sleep in late
Nap in the sun in the park anyway
Call MoM
Lose confidence in the appeal of Cool-Seeming Job

Didn't
Work on the book
Clean the apartment
Do my chores
Hang out with two-year-olds

Did
Wake up bright and early to cram
Do a lot of research that I did not allude to in the interview
Talk for almost 45 minutes straight
Get at least some enthusiastic response to my babbling
See a shirtless man removing his pants on a park bench
Play hooky from the gym
Cook dinner
Work on the book

Didn't
Get as nervous as usual
Freak out and forget what I was going to say
Completely avoid sounding dumb
Blow it
Fullfil my promise to New Coach
Think of a good excuse
Waste my Friday

Did
Lie to my allergist
Spend most of the day playing scrabble on my phone
Fantasize about quitting a lot
Practice talking about Potential New Job in bathroom mirrors
Get a last-minute super-urgent due-right-now assignment at 4 and still leave by 6:30
Fall asleep on Husband for a lovely hour or so
Wonder if my terrible job has made me useless, helpless, and dependent in the workplace
Get smacked for wondering it out loud

Didn't
Ask for the test I wanted to have done
Man up and correct myself after blatantly lying to the allergist
Get fired for being the worst employee ever
Wait to get approval on the package to send to the client at 6:30
Suggest that they fire their useless Office Managerette
Succumb to the inevitable Enthusiasm Wane for Potential New Job
Do all the requisite research and prep for the interview
Send a compassionate response to MoM's email like a good daughter
Ask how my coworker's trip to Israel was

Did
Walk to work behind someone who really needs Body Shaman
Get an interview for the actually good-sounding job
Fantasize about quitting
Fall asleep again while constructively resting
Possibly partially destroy Body Shaman's magic work
Play phone scrabble at the office
Make a lasting impression on a 2-year-old

Didn't
Shower
Stretch out my work to last the whole day
Tell Boss Lady that I am not her secretary
Research or otherwise prepare for Friday's interview
Write
Spend time with friends
Get a dog

Did
Discover a veggie crisper full of blood before breakfast due to leaky meat packaging
Write a bit of a story on the train
Get to work late and spend the day mostly bored
Leave early to meet with Body Shaman
Learn some new DIY body repair techniques
Interpret "constructive rest" a bit too literally

Didn't
Hear back about the job
Work on the book
Think about the book before 11:30pm
Get fired
Remember the stuff I was going to blog about
Play with dogs