you know you're bored at work when...

...when you need to go to the fax machine or the photocopier or someone's office but you begin in the completely opposite direction so that it will take you longer to get there and back.

...when trips to the post office seem as appealing as a trip to sea world would to a 5th grade class.

...when you create fake packages and letters so that you can say youre going to the post office as an effort to at least get out of the office.

...when you voluntarily choose to do inventory every two weeks instead of every month...not because it benefits the company but because counting every brochure and pamphlet takes a dang long time and time is something you have an abundance of.

...when you start reading blogs in spanish just because you like the challenge.

...when you wait as long as hungrily possible to eat your lunch so that the second half of your day seems shorter although in reality the time you take off in the end you add in the beginning. but in a weird way you can trick yourself into thinking its not like that.

...when you've memorized your 16 digit credit card number, the expiration date, and that special 3 digit code on the back bc you've done so much online shopping in your neverending spare time.

...when you go down the list of your email contacts and email everyone you know...everyone...

...when that little familiar noise that outlook makes when you have an email gradually becomes the only thing that sustains you.


i have either done or believe all of the above in either complete or partial form.