Buckle Down

You go back to the office with such good intentions. Vacation recharged you fully so you say you’re going to buckle down. No perusing any websites for you. For now, at least, it will be edit, edit, edit. You’ll be in good shape and on top of everything.

Little by little it starts to crumble. You have to check your personal email, of course. You can’t resist checking Gawker to see if you missed any gossip while you were away. There are a few links to Deadspin stories that look interesting and then it’s on to the site’s “Why Your Team Sucks” posts, a few of which you missed last week.

No, no, it’s time to work. It’s Monday and it’s a time of editing and getting things done. You look at a blog and another article for work. You make the necessary changes to your own website.

But wait, what’s going on with Facebook? What happened last week? Who liked your post? And you might as well check your favorite entertainment sites, like Vulture and the AV Club.

Then it’s lunchtime and you eat while catching up on what you missed on some comic websites. Kitchenette has a new post so you kill some time reading that.

Stop. Edit some more. You have a lot to do and a lot to catch up on.

Wait, you forgot about Vox and the Awl. Check email again. What’s the weather? You sigh into the fluorescent lights because it looks like a great beach week or at the very least, a pool week. And it seems on an unfocused Monday, there is even time for Slate. My God.

You look at the clock. It’s after 4. Tomorrow is another day.