True, I may have the luxury of working in sweatpants in my home office (not that I do that *cough* of course) and much of my other working time is now spent standing, laying, squatting, and contorting myself into very unattractive positions behind the camera, there was a time when I worked in a few different offices and other work-type environments, and had much experience in The Classic Art of Workplace Time Wastage. You know, you get bored out of your skull, can't remotely focus on some mundane task ahead of you, or have simply checked off every. single. thing. you could possibly do today, including straightening all of the paperclips in that well in your desk drawer...and you still have TWO AND A HALF HOURS left before you can be released from hell?
Even though my current boss is Me, and I can't really cheat Myself out of valuable productive time without Myself making Me feel guilty about it, I still manage to find ways to practice this Art of Time Wastage. For example, instead of leaving my office every 15 minutes to go down the hall to pretend like I'm making copies and am having trouble with the printer, I now can get up from my desk every 15 minutes to go down the hall and pretend like I have to throw Lucy's ball to alleviate her boundless energy or she'll eat my face when I'm sleeping.
"i are killur. feer me."
Today's 5-7-5 assignment is to put one of your own time-wasting tasks in the haiku spotlight. Who knows, you just might learn some new skill here to make it through your day. I'll go first:
find this task quite dull
sigh and notice keyboard dust
compressed air can search
Now YOU.
