My least favorite part of every weekday is the ten or fifteen minutes spanning the time where my alarm goes off at 6:00am; I nearly *always* wake up shortly before the radio (or actually static this morning, since I knocked the clock radio off the nightstand some time this weekend, and it bumped the tuning wheel), and spend a few unpleasant minutes watching it count up, then spending a few more minutes dealing with the fact that I’m completely not excited about picking myself up and being productive, or at least appearing so.

I expect you can relate, at least a little bit.

But yeah, it’s Monday. Started the day off with a phone call about what I consider is a pretty important work thing (it involves a bunch of money that somebody conveniently left off this year’s budget because they didn’t read something closely) that I’m trying to solve, but the people who matter can’t be bothered to show up to meetings or even answer emails. Two of us showed up, the meeting went ten minutes, and got kicked further down the curb. I have the feeling that *I’m* going to get flak for this issue (even though I have nothing to do with setting the budget, nor had anything to do with the extra-weird contracting arrangement that forced the situation), so I’m saving every last scrap of correspondence so that I can prove I’ve been on top of it, but that no one else has been.

Yeah. It’s hard to find positivity in the workplace.

The weekend itself wasn’t all that awful. Some cleaning got done, I made a nice slow-cooked pork butt with my own from-scratch bbq sauce on Saturday, and we did another online happy hour thing Sunday afternoon with friends celebrating someone’s 40th birthday, as well as the announcement that the couple in question is expecting their first child. It was nice.

I also dug into some weird corners of online streaming (after watching Flash Gordon like I said I would on Friday night), finding some true low-budget gems on Amazon Prime, including the gloriously batshit Jurassic Games, which is essentially equal parts Hunger Games, Jurassic Park, and The Running Man.

But today? Yeah, today I just can’t summon enthusiasm about sending more messages to people who I know won’t answer them. Maybe the afternoon will be better.

Who am I kidding?