Today: Catch Up and Ketchup

Being busy is a good thing, as it often indicates that you’re still alive and employed and maybe even a little bit important.  The downside is that sometimes you have trouble squeezing everything in.  When this happens, I tend to prioritize based on the following criteria:

Will I get yelled at if I do not show up/complete the task/call this person back? If yes, show/complete/call immediately.  If no, will I feel guilty or interpret the non-yeller’s non-yelling as reverse psychology?  If still no, still do not do it.

Will I feel better if I skip it (remember those things?!)?  If the answer is yes (to the original question, not the question about Skip It), skip it.

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I also consider questions such as, Will I get free stuff?  Will I advance my career and/or social standing?  Will there be puppies there?  Will there people present that I want to punch?  Will there be people present who want to punch me?  Will there be spiked punch?

And then I make my decision.   In my head, this process is completed in mere seconds.  When I type it out, not so speedy.  If I need more than mere seconds, I fake a sneeze or incoming phone call to give myself an extra second or two.

There are also times when I know I need to meet a deadline, or when I have to get gas so that I can stop charting downhill courses to enable coasting to my destination on fumes.  And as much as I should do these things, sometimes I just don’t want to.  All I want to do is have some fun, just me and Sheryl Crow and our Tuesday Night Music Club.

So tonight, I am going to catch up with some friends over dinner at the Corrib.  And by dinner, I mean French fries and half a beer.

Also On Tap for Today:

• Have two pairs of pants hemmed, or grow two inches, whichever happens first
• Watch Top Chef Masters

What do you do when you don’t want to do what you’re supposed to do?