Once, while talking with a woman about food issues, she remarked that we focus too much on numbers; calories, the read-out on the scale, sizes printed on labels. That we had forgotten how to listen to what our bodies were telling us. The same could be said of our relationship to the clock and calendar. I am not a morning person by nature. I am this dog.
How’s your Monday going, Deadsplinters?
Both kids up before 6am. It’s cold and raining out. I am very tempted to introduce them to Sesame Street today.
I wish my dog would watch Sesame Street. She’s obnoxiously cheery in the morning.
So, yes, that video is funny…but Jesus Christ what a poorly trained dog.
Started my work day by discovering that my remote PC got shut down over the weekend so I’ve been dead in the water while I wait for someone from the Helpless Desk to walk over to where it is and turn it back on. I really, really, really, want my own company PC so I don’t have to do this remote desktop bullshit anymore.
You think they’d realize it was in their best interest to get you one.
You’d be surprised how often companies think that “best interest” = “cheapest fucking option”
I write this from a PC that’s still equipped with Microsoft Office 2013.
BINGO! Most companies don’t give a rat’s ass about what’s the best solution–only what is the cheapest solution. They have zero capacity for long term thinking.
Wow!
That is a dog who thinks he is the pack leader. Not a good situation.
I hate the morning. Don’t even talk to me til after 10AM.
If I listened to my body I would eat all the time!!
Hello!
…I know someone who (when they were going into an office every day) unironically considered getting one of those coffee mugs with a scale marked on it that starts with “don’t talk to me” at the top & only gets to “you may now speak” at the bottom
…most days I think coffee is the deciding line for me…but some days I think I’d just keep topping that mug up until it was time to go home?
There’s not enough coffee in the world to make me want to talk to most people.
The only problem with that mug is that it invites people to get close enough to look at the level of remaining coffee, which would irritate me no matter how many cups into the day I am.
No, that’s your brain saying “ I want”. Your body tells you what you need. I have been able to learn the difference. But, that doesn’t mean I listen to it!
That was for Meg.
Wait, you mean there’s a difference between want and need?
So I’m told, lol.
Highly suspicious!
I fill a liter water bottle with coffee in the morning and drink it all day. Sometimes I finish it, sometimes I don’t finish it. But it is there on my desk, able to provide coffee comfort in case of need.
That’s a practical way to approach the day.
my body told me i needed to stay home today
i listened
im still fucking traumatized from the test tho……shit motherfucker…youre a nurse not a fucking wrecker….
unless demolitions dudes now have a side gig jabbing people in which case i stand corrected….but also wtf who signed off on that?
that reeks of management
anyways….the farscy is having an epic whine
Nurse Ratched trying to give you a lobotomy with your Covid test?
ayup
it was almost bad enough to make me regret pulling a sickie
….almost
My mom in her “wisdom” decided to call local animal control to complain about squirrels eating plants in her garden.
/shakes head in dismay/
It is annoying but I don’t know what she expects them to do about it, lol.
That’s what they told her.
My body and mind say, if it’s not done by 11 am it ain’t getting done.
I used to do my best work late at night. But over the years I’ve been broken down and forced into the daylight box.
I used to be fine with mornings and thought the whole circadian rhythm thing was very exaggerated. Like even in college I was fine with 8am classes, but was also okay staying up late.
Then grad school hit, and off I went to Belize for the summer to do field work. And because we had to be on site by 7am, I did a ton of physical labor in the heat all day, and then you didn’t really want to be up that late because light after dark draws bugs. Plus exhaustion from work and heat. As a result, for about 2 months each summer I was rising with the sun and going to bed pretty soon after dusk. After a few weeks, it was like the most rested I’ve ever been, which is impressive since my mattress was piece of foam on wooden slats in a house with no air conditioning.
Anyways, ever since that summer (and I’m 37 now), I’m totally a morning person.
I’m trying to maintain an early schedule, but it’s not easy, and a single careless weekend could have me backslip into a nearly nocturnal schedule, that would take weeks to get out of…
But, when I would go backpacking or similar, I’d shift to a more daylight-aligned schedule, but it doesn’t stick…