I Don't Have 5 Arms! (Nor Do I Want To)

I Don't Have 5 Arms! (Nor Do I Want To)
Current mood: exhausted

Wow, the past couple of weeks of work have been insane! Not in the same way as the Rack, (which often made me want to drink cyanide and crawl into a dark hole), but still crazy nonetheless.

There's an old saying that goes "Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part." That's basically what's going on at the moment--- we're nearing the end of the quarter and all the buying offices are trying to catch up at the last minute. And since everything needs to go through me, it's really creating the proverbial bottleneck.

The good news is that it doesn't mean I need to work a minute later or do anything special. That's what I love about this job---I'll bust my ass to get as caught up today as possible, as I always do, but when the clock strikes "8-hour shift," I'm out the door and on to my weekend. None of this "bringing it home with you" bullshit. I guarantee I'll never get into that again, even if it means living cheaply for the rest of my life.

I've made the firm lifelong decision that free time and lack of stress are more important to me than money, and I resolve never to go back on that decision. More power to those people willing to put in the long hours to get ahead, and I hope that the fruits of their labor are sweet and spiritually rewarding to them. The economy relies on people like that and I don't discount their contribution.

But for me, I guess I'm just not a true Capitalist. I'm satisfied with living simply and don't feel the deep desire to "get ahead." Guess it's just one of those pinko socialist tendencies I occasionally display. As much as I love the good ol' USofA, sometimes I just don't fit in.

(On a side note, the next 3 Depeche Mode remasters just came out. OMFG, A Broken Frame sounds like a totally new album!!! Quite a step up from the shoddy worn-out cassette I played a zillion times as a 12-year-old...)

Currently listening :
A Broken Frame
By Depeche Mode
Release date: 03 October, 2006