Monday Piddling

Okay... it's the first week of August, and I'm back at work. I'll admit that I'm always a little excited and depressed by this... all at the same time. It's daunting to come into an empty, broken apart classroom that needs restoring and the reestablishment of the school year routines. But it's fun in a weird way too. The walls are bare, May's calendar is still up from a time when I ran out a little too hastily last school year, and everything has a layer of grimy dust that needs wiping. With a couple of weeks yet until school starts, I'm here by myself... partly focused and working, partly piddling and playing. Right now I guess I'm piddling. It's quiet in the room, and I haven't yet put on the yellow rubber gloves to start scrubbing desks. Instead I'm thinking of you - my own form of stalling today. You have a lot of different faces as I write this, and I wonder where you are as you read. Often you have my mom's face. Or sometimes you are another family member. Sometimes you are one among my small circle of girlfriends. Could it be that you are a friend that I've been sad to lose contact with? Or maybe you're someone I don't know well at all. Either way you're here, and since you are, let's piddle away some minutes together and further delay the work we must get done today.



Let's pass the time by playing a game. Pick one (or more if you insist on showing off) of the following questions, and answer via comments today, tomorrow, or whenever you show up. I'll play too.


1. Name one great thing about Mondays (because naming the unappealing things would be too easy).

2. Name all the objects in your immediate proximity that begin with the letter "d."

3. Would you rather have a pet chinchilla or pot bellied pig if you could choose between only the two? Defend your answer.

4. What one item would you purchase for yourself if money were no object and nobody really cared that you were indulgent and completely selfish for buying it?

5. Name one compulsive habit that you have, don't really understand, but you do it anyway.

6. List the first three breakfast cereals that come to mind.

7. What is the earliest memory you have? How old do you think you were when you were in that moment?

8. Back to the Future I, II, or III? (No brainer.)

9. Name a life goal that you haven't accomplished yet but want to.

10. Make up your own random question. Answer it.


It is strongly encouraged that you play, and avoid being a stick in the mud - yeah, even if you've never commented before. I'm pulling on the rubber gloves and leaving you some time to think about it.