Saturday 01/01/11

It’s been a blinding week off work. Christmas and new year can suck it as far as I’m concerned, the greatest thing about this break has been the dozens and dozens of hours I have spent doing nothing. The last proper time off I had was for Glastonbury and that was less relaxing than doing my usual 40 hour week at work. I’ve earned the bedsores my inactivity caused me this week.

I had meant to design a database for work, but that got shelved. There’s a decent argument I was told around which it is said that if you put effort into work when you don’t need to, it may be noticed and you will be rewarded as a result. This is something everyone else is perfectly aware of but it never clicked with me. I don’t want to take the chance that my efforts may not be noticed. No way am I risking doing something for no remuneration. It’s the same reason I couldn’t keep up with piano lessons, athletics training and school. The only reason I go to work is because I will definitely get paid at the end of each month.

My greatest achievement this week is probably to have seen all 36 episodes of Community, having never watched it before, between Monday and Thursday. That works out at a little over 12 hours over 4 days. Community is worth chain watching (it’s a real phrase) though. It’s about as close as I get to watching anything hip, with it’s cool, young American attitude and clever pop culture references (though I miss as many as I understand) and for some reason, probably to do with how US shows are designed to draw you in to keep you wanting more, I couldn’t resist watching episode after episode. If Eastenders is crack cocaine to my mother, Community is Eastenders to me. It’s just a shame the next episode isn’t on until the 20th of January – I should’ve paced myself.

Back in the office next week, the first of the year, and likely to be, in my post-Community refractory period, my least productive of the decade so far.