Did You Miss the Part Where I Said I Was WRONG?

It's been a while since I've had a day like today... you know, one in which you don't work... at all. Oops. Didn't mean to do that!

I got up for my 9 am conference call, but my boss wasn't on (she took the day off... I guess I felt like that was permission enough for me to do the same!). After that conf. call, I had two more rapid-succession calls from State College colleagues (both of whom are very-cool colleagues that I enjoy working with and really know their stuff... so both calls were good). But by 11, I had wrapped all my morning tasks, fielded all the phone calls, answered all the e-mails, completed the few to-do's that were waiting on action from me, and checked all the (MANY) RSS feeds on my IE7 (including one very-interesting one from Mr.A-Z). So, I hopped in the shower, stood around staring at Yonkers (I swear, that's not a dirty thought... just another reference to the A-Z blog), and got myself all clean for the day. By the time that was done, it was time to go grab lunch and sit in front of my computer screen for a few fleeting moments.

By about 1, I was pretty much checked out for the day... so I decided to "work" from in front of the TV. Before you judge me, you should know, I haven't watched TV (or Tivo) for about a week now (AND I actually did some work). Jon has a new favorite XBox 360 game, and our regular "TV time" has been dedicated to earning experience points in Rainbox Six Vegas. Which is great because it gets me off the couch in the evenings, reading lots more, getting work-related tasks done in the evening, spending time with my pals via IM, and doing organizational stuff on the big computer (you know the stuff... photo-tagging and iTunes arranging). So, I've been doing that stuff instead of catching up on my Tivo'd goodness... therefore, I had lots of unwatched shows piling up on me. It took pretty much the whole day (from 1 to 1!), but I think I'm almost caught up. No worries... I probably won't do it again for a while.

And since I talked the other night about my Editorial JOMC class, I thought I'd also mention (before I forget about it & the papers have been re-filed for the next time I want to go through them) an actual good piece I wrote for Shu. I won't bore you with the whole piece... but it was about Mike Tyson... and how I didn't think he should be allowed to fight again (when he was reapplying for his license post-earchomp). Shu gave me an A on the assignment and (with very little other critique... throughout the whole piece) wrote "I've seen worse" at the top. LOL. I loved that guy. Even when you pleased him, you felt like you had SO MUCH FURTHER to go!!!