Yes, that is today’s question. For some reason I’m having a hard time staying organized on Fridays. You’d think I’d be powering through my Fridays — it’s the last day of the work week and the faster I get through the day, the faster I can get to the weekend! But it hasn’t been happening that way the past few weeks and I’m not really sure why.
Maybe it’s because things have picked up at work. Or maybe I’m just trying to cram too much into a Friday afternoon. So today I was busy at work, but I also started the day off slow. My alarm went off at it’s normal time and I just didn’t want to get myself out of bed. So I didn’t — I dozed for a little bit and relaxed. It was nice, but that also meant that I couldn’t get my normal morning stuff like working out done before I needed to log into my work e-mail.
And work was busy today. I thought I’d get a workout it during lunch, but that didn’t happen. I also didn’t shower in the morning because I figured I would be able to get that workout in. See, there’s a pattern here! Least I remembered to eat lunch! But I didn’t go for a walk at lunchtime either — this day was just totally off schedule.
Finally my work day was done, I got a bunch done and felt good about that. And I got my workout in at 4:30 p.m.! And then I was finally going to shower because my husband and I go out for dinner on Friday nights. But there was also a virtual author event at 5 p.m. that I had signed up for…I could have just watched the recording at a later time, but I figured I’d already spent the entire work day un-showered, what was 60 more minutes!
So I poured myself a well-deserved beer from our kegerator and signed into the event. They were using a platform called Crowdcast — the speaker and the author being interviewed are on the screen, but the audience is not, thank goodness. There is a chat and question function if you need to use them but basically this is just a watch and listen kind of virtual event, perfect when you haven’t showered yet!
But then they had technical issues and moved over to Zoom. Of course they did! So now I have a choice — join a Zoom call all sweaty and gross or just bow out and watch the recording later when I have a chance. And I could just go take that shower and get ready to go out for dinner.
Of course I did the Zoom call! And I am glad I did — there were only about 20 folks on the call and I always like hearing this author speak. Although I was a little embarrassed when she said hello to each of us by name and all I kept thinking about was how oily my hair probably looked…but I joined in, enjoyed the event and added yet another book to my to-read list.
Now I’m going to go shower, it’s definitely time…
Notes from a Self Quarantine 