Eleven AM and All Is... Well, It's Still Boring.

I'm having serious boredom issues lately. Yes, I have a big party to get together this weekend, I've got my first work-travel for my job coming up, I have to finalize the layout for the November issue of the paper, I've just moved into a new house, my sweet little niece is about to turn 2, and I can't wait to be in Disneyland for my birthday... but I'm still freaking bored!

While I like my current job, and love the people that I work with, I can't help but wonder if a highly skilled chimpanzee could do my job. I am responsible for tracking product interest, software evaluation requests, and facilitating workshops and seminars. This may sound like a lot of hard work but when one of my skills is streamlining processes it becomes a very little amount of work. Hence the boredom.

I spend the first 5-10 minutes of work checking email. I move on to monitoring 3 inboxes for workshop, software eval, and product info requests. I determine if they are valid leads, track them in spreadsheets, enter them into databases if necessary, and forward them on to the necessary people. This takes less than an hour. Which gets me somewhere in the neighborhood of 9:30am.

This is the point in my day that my co-worker (and project leader) Angie stops by the kitchenette (next to my office) for some coffee and a quick chat about what was on TV last night. We are both unashamed TV fans, especially of certain reality shows. We usually spend a significant amount of time chatting about the fools on said shows. On the dockett today was the psychos on The Bachelor and some more Big Brother. Yes, Big Brother is over but we obssessed about it all summer and just can't let it go. Especially now that they are "re-airing" the live feeds. The time is now 10:30am.

I move on to see if I need to order/ship any materials for upcoming events and do whatever tasks I have on the list. I am now at 10:45am. And all caught up on my work for the day.

I now have to sit around and process any new emails and to make sure I am available in case anyone needs help with a random project. So far today, no new emails and no projects on the horizon. Same as yesterday. And the day before.

It's times like these that I get desperate. I promise you that by the time 5pm rolls around I will have watched at least one Netflix, more than one TV show that the networks now make available on their websites, any number of YouTube clips people send my way, read disheartening articles about the presidential candidates and/or global news, and will have stared out my office window for minutes on end without blinking.

I am running out of ways to pass the time.

I’m Going Insane

Last night I dreamt the following…

I was walking down the street in what looked like Heidelberg (a city in Germany I stayed in a couple of years ago). Cobbled streets, quaint shops, just look at the photo.

Anyway, it’s the day before Halloween and I realize that I have no costume. I begin to panic. I’m suddenly walking very briskly through the streets and stumble into a toy/costume shop. For whatever reason I pick up a plastic broom that looks like it would be a part of some hollow light-up holiday lawn decoration, and continue making my way through the store.

When I get to the wig section I realize that I am being pursued by a hostile child, looking to be no more than seven, who contests that I have stolen his broom and he wants it back. I am about to argue that it in no way belongs to him when I wake up.

What the hell!?

I need to think of a costume. Fast. Sure I’ve thought of a ton of costume ideas, but none have been brilliant I assure you.