Missing: Weekend

It’s amazing how a weekend can look so different on Monday than it did on Friday.

Or technically, I like to think of my weekend starting Thursday evening because that is when my work tends to end for the week. Although this Friday I had a 9 a.m. meeting. The meeting went well, but I was a bit shocked when I didn’t actually get back home until around 3 p.m. or so. I didn’t expect to be gone so long.

And I worked Friday evening on my computer. I was doing homework and grading papers. As I was doing this, I was pleased because I would be able to cross things off on my to do list. My weekend stretched out in front of me with lots of possibilities.

That was Friday.

Today is Monday, and I look back at my weekend and wonder, “where did I go wrong?”

Yes, I graded papers. Yes, I did homework. Yes, I even managed to either do housework and/or delegate a child to do my housework for me. And yet…

I still have papers to grade. I still have homework to do. And my list of things to do around the house is still there too.

And my to do list today is even longer than normal.

So what do I do? I log onto my computer to print something out. It is not easy to print things out anymore because our six-month old kitten, Feliz, likes to do battle with my printer. As she bats at the paper coming out of the printer, she sometimes causes printing jams, which makes the process of printing even longer.

And when I am supervising the printer, I am not doing other things — like getting ready for work. And so now I must ask not only where did my weekend go, but where did my morning go?

Thanks for playing.