Tick Tock

I have not exactly taken a restful time for myself after finals were over. I mean, technically, we had the following Monday off work because it was our Labor Day. But, besides that, I only took on more hours and more responsibility at work. So now, work is not the ease of computer playtime (though obviously, still some because I am at work at present) and is now burdened with order forms, invoices, voicemails and various other interruptions and complications.

The other day, I also had several meetings to go to in addition to my rather full work day. I went to the office of my financial aid person (who is actually helpful, shock of shocks) and saw her "Perpetual Year Calendar" on the wall, totally erased. I thought it was odd to see her typically full board empty and told her so. She told me that she just thought it best to start making the next year's schedule and have a normal calendar to keep her up to date for the next couple months. She needed to start planning for March at the end of October. While this in itself was quite astounding, I was also struck by the title of the thing: perpetual year calendar. Good Lord.

I would have preferred Perpetual Calendar, Reusable Calendar... but no. Perpetual Year. The forever, ongoing, unstoppable force of time; the one event (Happy New Years!!) that marks that passage of time was wiped away with a little Windex. I suddenly felt like watching some Office Space and doing absolutely nothing.

Instead, I went to work like a good little worker bee. To make me even more disappointed with myself, when I got my official staff ID card today, I was giddy as a schoolgirl. I am wearing it even now, though it hasn't been activated yet. I am a sad, sad little worker bee.