I am an involentary Office Potato

This Saturday will be different, I have a plan to do something. I will explain why my Saturdays are so boring…

Saturday to me spell a number of things:

Being tired after a crazy weekend
Being bored
Calling everyone to make sure they have survived last weekend
Questioning what I’m doing in this office, country, continent and planet.
Calling a dear friend to bitch and complain about one thing or another but most of the time it’s about my job.
Planning my next weekend
Promise to quit coffee and do more Yoga.



Everyone in Kuwait complains about their jobs, about having a crude boss or routine job or long hours. My situation is a bit different; I do not have a boss. No one tells me what to do and or when to do it. My boss chooses to simply ignore me, leaving me a victim of my own mind to sit and try to innovate ways to kill 10hrs/day.

This is what I do from 8-6 everyday:
News, news and more news, Google everything and everything Google.
Chat on msn, chatterbox and bulletin boards.
Spend 1 hr reading coffee and drinking newspapers.
Send out 1 e-mail a day regarding work, total time from conception of e-mail topic to clicking send varies from 1-5mins (Summing up my productivity rate for the day)
Chat with friends on the phone, discuss following topics:
Why my job is boring
Why her job is boring
Why our lives are boring
Get bored of conversation and then hang up.
Play text twist
Surf conspiracy theory websites like Rense.com and come up with my own conspiracy of the day on why Internet was down, or why there is a dust storm.
Stare at the books in my office about starting own business for dummies and business plan made easy books.
Delete junk mail, open letters of invitations from startup companies, recruiters and consultants from Dubai and Lebanon that want to steel even more business from Kuwait, throw away junk mail and feel guilty about not recycling.
Google combinations of random words like: +green, +nipple, +communist, link results to conspiracy theory and then dismiss feeling not-so-lucky!
Search Bayt.com and other failed regional headhunter websites and check if a new feature like “cool & unconventional jobs near you” option has been added or not.
Blog the living lights out of me.
Thank the stars for internet.

I really can win an Oscar for the role of “The woman who convinced the world she was working”.
Another 3 months of this and I will be out of here, my 1 yr will be done. I would have paid my debt to society. I will be able to impress the next employer with that 1 yr experience. 1 year would have passed for working in a bureaucratic dung-den with insecure power-hungry greedy manipulative Novo Riche Kuwaiti dimwits.
I look forward to NOTblogging from my next job or blogging strictly for work related purposes. Blogging to me represents being bored at work. Hating your job is underrated, it is a horrible experience to wake up feeling enslaved by a system, feel unproductive and replaceable. Also earning money for doing nothing is nasty business and insanely addictive.

2day however will be different
I've already outlined a story line for my Documentary Film
Began outlining my fesability study for the business that I've been thinking about for over 2 years now.

I have learned 1 thing from being alive which is to always be cynical and negative, skim through all the posibilities of shit going down and then look at all the ways of making things less shitty, living each day at and always end up with a positive thought.

My positive thought for the day is: Not all Saturdays will be this shitty, I have experienced a good Saturday before and I will sure as hell experience one to come..