Thu, 19 May 2005

timesheet, 01.29
09.00pm: check in, check to see if i’m digging tonight. i’m not.

09.03pm: tank up on coffee.

09.06pm: get shovel and flashlight.

09.08pm: walk around yard, check for damaged stones.

09.30pm: pretend to be a zombie pirate. scream “I GOT THE SCURVY!” at top of lungs, work on my stagger-walk.

09.41pm: use shovel as imaginary microphone stand, pretend to be Juan, latin singing playboy.

09.47pm: practice hypnosis on creepy lookin’ dog.

09.48pm: run from creepy lookin’ dog.

10.02pm: return to office, drink more coffee.

10.06pm: go to bathroom just to hang out.

10.16pm: walk around yard.

10.25pm: try to scare drivers out on the highway by staring directly into their souls.

10.33pm: take antacid for to battle all the coffee.

10.48pm: work on stories in my head.

10.58pm: decide that fifteen below is too cold to pretend to work, go back to the office for the night.

11pm-1:15am: take nap in office chair. note, for the record, that this is the first time i’ve napped on the job.

1.20am: check yard again.

1.32am: decide i need to buy a giant gong, and invite people over and walk out in my fu manchu outfit and bang gong and make spooky yet incomprehensible proclamations and then send people off into the world to do my secret bidding. might have to build gong out of stolen sheet metal.

1.38am: again, run from creepy lookin’ dog.

1.46am: drop flashlight in the snow, consider something about how a flashlight makes unilluminated areas darker than they are with the flashlight off, realize i need to go to bed.

1.55am: return flashlight and shovel to closet.

1.59am:check out.
(12:26.05.19.2005) [/scrytch] #