Work vs Income. The big trade-off.
It is not HUMANE to make a person sit in an open-plan office for 8 hours a day, Monday to Friday. It is only made remotely tolerable by a monthly pay cheque.
I am currently standing very still in the middle of a mental shit-storm (scuse my French) as the full remembered horror of full-time work battles with the huge relief of having some money again. I stand VERY still. I read books. I try not to get drunk (because that only makes it worse). I watch TV. I do not think about not having seen the BF Baby for weeks because I have to work and the weekends are short. I do not think about how the time I have for all those people I love most is truncated because I have to sit in an office with (perfectly nice) strangers all day.
No.
I focus on the positive. I'm not stony broke any more. We can go on holiday. I can buy shoes, books, T-shirts and DVD box sets again. I can meet my friends in real pubs, and not only Sam Smiths smegholes. I can go out to dinner. I can buy people nice presents. I can sleep through the night.
Perhaps most positive of all - I'm ready to get back to the book. It is my Obi-Wan Kenobe. It is my only hope.
But until I can raise an army to defeat the Emperor Routine and his evil henchman Darth Boredom, I will be doing it for the money.
Which makes me Han Solo.
Cool.
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yay to the book. you do a good and noble thing. we miss you. and are waiting in anticipation for the book tour.
ReplyDeleteand matt will be very upset as he chooses to go to those smegholes regardless how many spare duckets he has!