I know it sounds sad, but putting up the out-of-office reply is one of the most satisfying acts in my adult life. I had a very random weekend off to start the month of December and I used it to go visit friends and family in Boston, perhaps one of my favorite cities in this great Union. Before I left, I opened up the automatic reply option and realized I had not put one up since the end of July/beginning of August (also the last time I had time off to see a member of my family).
In short, it had been four whole months since I had basically been able to tell someone “Bug off, you’ll have to wait four days.”
It felt marvelous.
I even went as far as to leave my computer at home, so I would not physically be able to do work while I was away. I quickly found that also meant I was not physically able to write. And so I found myself in Cherry Bomb Bakery (I highly recommend the flourless chocolate cupcake) with a polka dot notebook and pen scribbling notes for upcoming blog entries. I had forgotten how satisfying it was to scribble out text and draw arrows to rearrange thoughts.
Of course the arrows quickly turned into doodles of flowers and hearts and stars. I’m such a girl. If only I had a crush to write in a big heart or do the compatibility test based on the numbers of vowels in each person’s names (Anyone else know this one? Anyone?). It was a standard doodle back in the day.
Alas, now I am back in the office and responding to all the emails, phone calls and notes from people that I told to “bug off” … and also back to writing.
There’s some good stuff coming up. This girl is going to find her groove … sometime in the next 466 days any way.
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