Am seriously having the hardest time focusing today.
…It’s taken me three times as long to do everything here at the office because from the moment I walked in, I have been sidetracked with not caring.
Now, you have to understand: I never *really* “care” about this place, or my job in it…but there *is* some strange form of satisfaction in flashing through a shit ton of paperwork and having that “to be filed” stack grow at alarming rate. It has nothing to do with the pride in what I do here, and everything to do with the OCD sense of contented accomplishment at a full and messy inbox, being organized and processed into an alpha-ready stack in the outgoing pile.
…But today, even the OCD has taken a holiday.
I’ve spend countless chunks of time just staring out the lobby windows, for instance. Every time I walk by them. Just staring. There is nothing out there to look at really…just a graffitied train tunnel to one side, and our cars cooking in the sun on the front lot, out the other. But that doesn’t seem to keep me from looking anyway.
…Have been through all the coffee as well. The entire pot, minus one mug’s worth, claimed by the WHS Pimp when he could manage to pry my fingers off the handle.
…Then, one of the WHS Pimps peeps went on a donut run…so that was more time spent doing nothing…staring into a box of fried dough while trying to mentally negotiate which of them would be “healthier than the others” based on weight-mass, and added sprinkle/icing content, versus the other ones. You know…because of all that fitness shit I’m supposed to be caring about right now.
Then there was the FBing…across about three hours.
…Constant update alerts kept distracting me from the Open Order Report…which I felt obligated to attend to, as most of them were either featuring something I’d posted myself, or a comment I’d made on someone elses…when I should have been working earlier, but was too busy trolling streams at the time.
Vicious cycle.
…And now the excuse is: I’m freezing.
It’s prob’ly 80 degrees outside (which feels, I dunno…110 to the average Washintonian)…so the WHS Pimp put the air conditioner on at like nine a.m. I’m in flip flops and a t-shirt, with still damp-from-this-morning’s-shower hair. I’ve been cold for 3 solid hours. To combat this, I feel the need to get up from the desk and do “walk-abouts”…tours of the office, and lobby and whs to get my blood pumping. Which then leads me (inevitably) to the windows, where I stare out in long chunks of time, before reloading my coffee cup, going back to the tablet on my desk to respond to a “ding” notification alert, and forget what I was doing before this last “mini-break” starting…about fifteen minutes ago.
…At this point, I feel it’s just futile, and I should give up.
Fuck it.
Clearly, the brain just DID NOT get out of bed today. It’s still at home under the covers…way more warm than I’ve been for the past three hours…reading a book maybe, while drifting lightly in and out of consciousness.
…Meanwhile, here sits my body.
…With four more hours of painful attempting to focus and give a shit, still ahead.
…Kinda like one of Ma’s brutal Holiday “Lord of the Rings” fests.
Dear Lord.
It could *actually* be worse than this.
(shakes head.)
~D
