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

Did
Get modest appreciation for half-assed work
Act like a responsible grown-up and cancel tonight's lifting session with New Coach
Make an appointment with Body Shaman
Immediately hurt less, of course
Watch a bunch of tv
Reprise my terrifying Hand Crocodile routine for Husband

Didn't
Work on the book
Get fired
Give up my subway seat to a guy who looked like Kurt Vonnegut
Hear back from Super Cool Job people
Make any major life decisions
Get the Modern Major General song out of my head yet

Friday, May 11 - Sunday, May 12

Did
Send MoM some flowers at my aunt's house, to make up for the forgotten card
Go on a field trip to PA to watch a friend's sister get married
Meet a new candidate for World's Awesomest 2-Year-Old
Scare her with some very realistic Hand Crocodile action
Spend a lot of time running in circles and being a human fence
Enjoy seeing some people I haven't seen in years
Have lots of good conversations
Play games
Wander around historic Valley Forge
Get appropriately sunburned
Make a key navigational error on the return trip
Get some strong book encouragement

Didn't
Remember the name of the author with flesh-eating disease
Assist in the overthrow of the Tyrannous Wedding Photographer
Keep my wedding favor
Make scintillating wedding conversation with our table-mates
Figure out how to wash the eye makeup off
Quite decide whether to move to the middle to be near our friends
Make any headway in convincing them to move near us
Get to do splashy splashy with our un-god-kid
See the Tree of Mythic Significance
Escape from Mister Softee
Use my time alone back at home to work on the book

Thursday, May 10

Did
Show up egregiously late again
Ring a stranger's bike bell because it pleased me
Take a 10 minute work vacation to an awesome hardware store
End up doing some work I'd been trying to get the right people to do for three months
Prep for a wedding trip
Fresh direct a bajillion groceries

Didn't
Find out who killed Laura Palmer
Get a Mother's Day card!

Did
Plow through some thrilling bank reconciliations
Roll around on a carpet for Mystic Body Shaman
Almost miss seeing Lady Boss before she left for Israel
Make hasty brochure mock-ups for a client meeting
Really enjoy gleaning the day's news from facebook posts
Ice my hip a bunch
Consider naturopathy

Didn't
Finish pretty much anything
Forget to be excited about seeing friends in two days
Manage to not inadvertently lie to anyone
Buy a Mothers' Day card for MoM
Work on the book
Get a dog

Tuesday, May 8

Did
Utterly fail at yesterday's diagrams
Wade through a quick organizational meeting that took nearly 2 hours
Get roped into making more presentations for work I'm not familiar with
Possibly get chastised for not interrupting enough and/or talking over other people
Share a subway seat with a woman who's heading to Memphis tomorrow to celebrate her birthday
Wash some dishes
Watch some Twin Peaks

Didn't
Do any bookkeeping
Feel at all bad during the possible chastisement
Feel much obligation to organize this project presentation
Quit my job
Use my evening for anything worthwhile
Work on the book
Get a dog

Did
Wake up rested
Get to work late, as usual
Wear a skirt that's striped like a TIGER
Futz around
Fantasize about the potential job
Go to the gym
Wimp out a little on the metcon
Play medicine-ball catch without hitting anyone in the face

Didn't
Quit anything
Back down when someone was condescending but wrong
Entirely betray my impatience with the last-minute, disorganized, late-making staff meeting
Work on the book
Squat
Forget to ice
Play with dogs

Did
Find and apply for an actually awesome-sounding job
Dare to open my book and find out that it's actually ok and worth writing
Go to the park with Husband
Watch some very excited rounds of fetch at the dog beach
Feed two goats, two sheep, and two llamas
Watch the pygmy loris move any which way it pleased
Start watching Twin Peaks
Win my game

Didn't
Write any new pages
Clean the stove burners
Stretch sufficiently
Abscond with any of the dog-beach dogs
Do anything I didn't want to do

Saturday, May 5

Did
Sleep a lot
Set up my new computer
Play my new game on it
Stop before winning
Explore the Big Cemetery with Husband
Have fun creeping ourselves out
Go out for sushi
Race through Fairway

Didn't
Figure out what foods are making my body weird
Think of anything new and interesting to say about the death penalty
Lift weights
Feel as sore as on Thursday
Do any writing
Go to the Fringe Fair and try to get hired as a venue manager
Get a dog

Did
Sleep for about 13 hours
Responsibly do stretching
Experience, possibly for the first time, what it's like to really not be broke
Buy a shiny new toy
Break it
Fix it
Play a game on it

Didn't
Quite know how to deal with this new experience
Leave my toy in the subway to see what would happen
Entirely shake off the guilt
Have a lot of enthusiasm for the gym, despite modest increases in weight
Write anything
Catch up on to-do items
Play with dogs

Did
Have the most amazing case of DOMS
Enjoy a splitting headache for about eight hours
Leave work on the dot of six, come home, and fall asleep

Didn't
Do much of use to anyone
Sleep enough yet

Did
Pass the time somehow
Have a brief meeting about a project
Dodge the question of whether I want to go salary/FT again
Disgust LadyBoss by admitting to eating meat
Lift some weights
Do a very brief conditioning workout
Wimp out as soon as I was given the chance

Didn't
Laugh in LB's face when she said her 2 desert island foods would be branded water and brown rice
Lift anything impressive
Mention the bits that hurt
Completely fail to converse
Write
Apply for jobs
Play with dogs

Did
Dream disturbing things about Lady Boss
Have to nag people multiple times about dumb things
End up twiddling my thumbs for a few hours
Sit through the world's most boring staff meeting
Eat two Lara bars and give myself a headache
Jump through lotsa hoops to apply for a municipal job in St Paul
Picture a different life and try to weigh drastically unequal things

Didn't
Get "this little light of mine" stuck in my head this time
Congratulate a new dad I like very much
Read through a friend's blog posts as promised
Get caught up on sleep yet
Dress the part
Write
Do anything creative
Feel particularly competent