My friend Tantek made a list of what he did for his first day back at work in the new year.
He took a much longer holiday than I did. Must be nice!
BUT he also worked a TWELVE HOUR DAY upon return. GEEK!
This is what I did on January 2nd, my first day of work in the new year:
*Got in at 8:30. Habit. It’s nice to come early, so I can leave early.
*Check my email. Both work and yahoo. Yahoo comes up faster and is more interesting than my work email.
*Noticed that one half of my co-workers were gone.
*Went to coffee room to get coffee and Microwave my Kasha cereal
*Ate and drank the above.
*Called all the telcom companies who my company uses and who are irritating me.
*Ordered a new cell phone for someone.
*deleted the 5,000 odd spam emails that were in my Inbox. Including one about a teenage girl and a horse that I REALLY wish had not passed in front of my eyes.
*Answered my personal email
*Started a really interesting email discussion about which movies of the ’80s were great, and why films buffs ignore the ’80s so much
*Did some other work stuff
*Answered a phone call, giving answer #32 of my arsenal, describing the difference between a phone conference and a video conferecne. “In a phone conference, you use a phone and you only hear the other participants. In a VIDEO conference, you see the other side. There’s a TV in the room, and it talks to you.”
*Started a video call
*Surfed
*Deposited my paycheck
*Checked my bank account online.
*Perused my Y-T-D totals sadly, contemplating that taxes were only getting worse and that I made a lot more last year.
*Watered my plant
*More work stuff
*Left kind of late, because I was waiting for a phone call about the next day’s meeting.
*Worked 9 hours
I’ve left a few things out, but that pretty much covers it.
I think in my next post, I’m gonna lie.
