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Saturday, January 26, 2008

Things to do at work on Saturday

  • Set up desk and get ready for business for the day
  • Check messages and emails
  • Get a drink
  • Check emails
  • Start off using hand lotion and end up giving yourself a full blown manicure knowing that you'll be shaking lots of hands with the day's business ahead
  • Start reading a book
  • Check emails
  • Make beautiful paperclip chain
  • Check phone to see if it is working
  • Spin around in desk chair until dizzy
  • Check emails
  • Decide paperclip chain will hinder work during the week as it takes time to undo that little contraption so take apart this masterpiece
  • Find a mirror and make funny faces
  • Clean out desk drawers
  • Check emails
  • Eat early lunch
  • Do some stretches as can't stop yawning
  • Walk some laps around building
  • Check emails
  • Take everything off desk in an effort to rearrange everything to make it work better -- end up putting everything back in the same exact place
  • Check emails to make sure didn't lose connection to computer during major desktop renovation
  • Try to think up a game to play on the calculator
  • Consider giving self pedicure but think better of it and go back to walking around the building
  • Find 3 month old cataloge to browse
  • Check emails
  • Start to make grocery list but can't remember what's in fridge at the moment so scrap list
  • Try making elaborate origami design as found on internet out of grocery list
  • Call home to find out what everybody is doing when you are not there
  • Check emails
  • Start googling people you know
  • Make elaborate to do list with priority symbols, etc
  • Redo to do list and arrange by category
  • Check emails
  • Take everything out of purse and rearrange
  • Find kind soul to talk to
  • Can't get word in edge wise with kind soul but can't seem to be able to get away
  • Make like you hear phone ringing in office and make a run for it
  • Check email
  • Go back to mirror and notice straggly bangs which encourages cutting bangs with desk scissors
  • Think about walking around again but think better of it after wondering where kind soul is and wonder if kind soul would notice bang trim
  • Do lunges up and down the hall actually looking for kind soul to talk to
  • Email hubby telling him you are bored only to find out they are having all kinds of fun
  • Wonder one more time the purpose of working on Saturdays
  • Check emails
  • Dread working tomorrow!

Have I left anything out?

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Comments

maybe you should check your e-mail. :)

idea to check email again?

You can always call your sister! :)

You check emails several times :)

wow looks like you have a lot to do!!

You didn't check emails often enough ;-)

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