Well it's finally FRIDAY! Yay! I love how on Monday I can't wait for Friday to come. It seems so overwhelming, a whole week of work to get through before the glorious weekend. But when Friday comes, it takes for-ev-VER. Yes. You know what I'm talking about. Here is how my week goes:
Monday: Wake up and realize it's Monday, so I have to go to work. Hit the snooze button once, but unable to fall back asleep as the cat is scratching at my door waiting for her food. Dumb cat. Get to work, down 3 cups of half-caf half decaf coffee, check my emails, and start looking around for the projects I didn't finish the week before. I get dragged into a project that takes me through till noon and I rejoice as it's time for lunch! After lunch I work on a few more little projects until the end of the day, while updating Twitter and checking out industry news. 5pm - go home!
Tuesday: Wake up before the alarm goes off or the cat is up. Debate going back to sleep for a few minutes, but quickly decide to just get up and start my day. Maybe today is the day I have time for the newspaper AND a bowl of cereal. It's not. Rush out the door at 7:55 am and get to work at 7:59 (yes, benefits of living close to work). Spend the first few hours of work checking up on industry news, researching new technology for the CU, and just brainstorming ideas that I may get to talk about sometime in the future. I usually check the clock once an hour.. waiting for lunch.. then waiting for the end of the day. 5pm comes faster today, although I have checked the clock. Maybe all that counting of seconds made it speed up?
Wednesday: Pretty much like Tuesday, however, since it's hump day, after noon, I feel myself sliding on the downhill part of the week. Woo afternoons go quick!
Thursday: This is the second hardest work day to get though! I wake up, hit snooze 2 times, put the cat in the bathroom so she'll stop mewing at me and skip breakfast all so I can gain 15 extra minutes of precious sleep. Good thing I keep granola bars at work :) Get to work, and have a project that has a morning deadline, so I get to work straight on that. Finish that, take a late lunch since the project took longer than expected and return sleepy and full from the delicious food I went out to eat! Since I'm in this food coma, I tend to just do mind-numbing work during this afternoon, such as stuffing and folding letters if I can. That takes all of 20 minutes, and I spend the rest of the afternoon fixing up projects that aren't quite right, perfect, make sense, etc. It's 4:57 and it's time to log off and go.
FRIDAY: "I don't wanna!" is my response when my alarm starts screaming at me to get up. I hit snooze 3 times, or halfway through the night I set my alarm to 7:20 or 7:30 just to sleep in. I get up eventually and throw on the outfit I laid out the night before because I know I don't get up early on Fridays. Get to work, and get busy. Fridays usually go fast because I have so much work I have to get done before the weekend begins. I work on any and all projects, sometimes doing half of one while simultaneously working on 2 others. I get more done if the sun is out, because I know getting caught up in designing a flyer/webpage/insert makes time race by. Lunch comes and goes without much regard from me. And once the 2nd half of my day comes, I hit a wall. It's 3pm on a Friday! Why do I have to work? This is when I start wondering what it would be like to own my own business and work from say 10-3 on Fridays, just because I can. And then those little logical men in my head say "oh but how would that be convenient to anyone but you. what about the customers? They need your products on Fridays too." So I try to put it out of my mind. Doesn't work. At least it killed 30 minutes of time while I was re-organizing my email inbox. I check the clock. 3:45. 3:55. 3:59. 4:12. 4:13. 4:28. Ah so close now. I feel my feet itching to get up and walk around. Take a stroll around the office to get the blood pumping so I don't clot up on the way down the stairs. 4:39. Ok time to organize the desk so it looks neat and clean on Monday. 4:45. Are all of my programs open? Did I get everything done that was due today? Double checking on that. 4:51. Send out a few emails about having a good weekend. Wash out my coffee cup. 4:58. Ok. Grab my purse and GO!
That's my typical week - give or take a few things. I sometimes work events, which totally changes my schedule. Now don't get me wrong, I L-O-V-E my job and what I get to do and the fact my schedule is so flexible. I like designing things and re-working them until I have 5 versions of the same thing. It's what I do. I just thought it would be interesting to let everyone get inside my head on a slow week. Not every day at work is "wam-bam thank you ma'm" filled with things to do. Sometimes you have to create your own work - like researching the competition, monitoring new websites for potential member segments, viewing other artist's work for inspiration, and much more.
Sure I may look at the clock a lot, or really enjoy when a week is over, but I also like the journey to it.
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