Day 17: The Boredom of Daily Life

Being a Tuesday, the worst day of the week, hands down, I figured I would talk about what goes into my daily routine. Every day, I get up at 7:10am and shower. I dress and then I am off to work by 8am. When I get to work one of two things happen, either Jimmy (the owner of the company) is here or he isn't. If he is here, I have to at least look busy the entire time he's here, which causes me to burn through the small amount of actual work I have to do everyday. If he isn't here, I can pace myself a little better and spread my work throughout the day. The other benefit to Jimmy absence is that I can ask Kirby questions about my assignments. Kirby is monopolized by Jimmy when both of them are here. When Kirby is here and free, sometimes we can shoot the breeze for half an hour and that kills some work time. No matter what, Jimmy is gone by 11 and Kirby usually leaves around lunch time to visit job sites.

So the afternoons are these long stretches where I sometimes have absolutely nothing to do. Since I use my own computer here at work, I don't feel guilty surfing the net but there are limits to how much one can surf without a specific target. Some days I literally sit here and fall asleep. On days where I was able to parcel out the morning work easier, I save myself some work to do in the afternoon but those days are scarce. Instead, it is mostly the monotony of having eight hours to fill and nothing to fill it with. That is why, around 11am, I start my blogging in hopes that it will carry me to lunch.

Food since last time: My dinner last night was four slices of pepperoni, bacon and extra cheese pizza with a coke (they were out of cold Dr. Pepper at Wal-mart). For dessert, I had four cookies and creme oreos. This morning, I had my usual SEC biscuit and three mini-cruellers with a DP. I am drinking a Coke Zero now and waiting for lunch.

Pop Culture: Another Kimmy Schmidt and more of The Hike for me, along with some War Machine comics.