When I work at the paper, I usually work in the evenings. Because no one from the general public or upper management are likely to come in during those hours, the TV is rarely on the news station that it usually displays during the day. Tonight it was on Jeopardy.
At first, my coworkers kicked ass. They asked all the right questions. I was impressed. And surprised. It's not that I thought the people I work with are stupid. Because I don't. It's just that none of them seemed like big trivia folks. But they were doing so well that I was actually intimidated by them. They obviously were far superior to me. That is, of course, until the contestants moved away from the first category. When the category changed, my coworkers questions became guesses, far-fetched, wrong guesses. I quickly shifted from being surprised by how well my coworkers were doing to being surprised by how poorly a handful of professional writers were doing on a literature category. How could they not know these things? Doesn't everyone know that. . . ah crap. . . I've gone blank. I wanted to drop a couple of names out there and impress you with my vast literary knowledge, but I can't seem to remember what any of the questions were. But I do remember that one of the responses most certainly was not Ernest Hemingway, despite what everyone else guessed.
Sorry I haven't updated much on my progress in doing stuff lately. This week seemed to slip by. In a good sense though, because three of the days were spent with a nice visit. But yeah, I'm not doing as much as I should. Don't give up on me yet. Excitement is coming.
I'm grateful for treadmills that allow me to read a book on blogging while running (3, 17, 20).
There you go...multi-tasking is the answer!!
ReplyDeleteHeh. The Colbert Report just reran an episode with a guest who wrote a book about how too many Americans multitask too much and how when people multitask, they usually fail miserably at at least one of those tasks.
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