A Journal a Day

A journal entry every day?!? Oh, that was a brilliant decision. What the heck was I thinking?

Here’s the deal… I’m ex-PAC-ed out. I’m also Iraq-ed out. And natural disaster-ed out. In fact I’m all news-ed out.

It’s been a long week; I’ve put in 70-75 office hours, easily.

Today, over lunch, I glanced at my co-workers – who were practically dozing in their soup – and said “this is the most wretched collection of Friday faces I’ve even seen!”

(Friday, I might add, is our longest workday… not only do we produce the Daily Report, but we also publish the Week-in-Review.)

Ah, but tomorrow is Saturday! And though I work with Guatemalans in a Guatemalan organization in Guatemala City, in the department of Guatemala, in the country of Guatemala…

Tomorrow I let my inner gringo run free!

It should look something like this:

• Sleep in. (maybe even turn on the alarm clock, just so I can have the pleasure of turning it off!)

• Read Photographic magazine while consuming coffee and a donut at American Donuts.

• Ride bus to the Miraflores Mall in zone 11, where I’ll have a personal pizza at Domino’s and finish reading “The Last Enchantment”, a novel about Merlin and King Arthur.

• Off to the movies to see “King Arthur” (yes, it’s a theme day, I guess). Popcorn mandatory.

• Sip a cappuccino, or two, while studying “Photoshop for Photographers” textbook.

• Bus back to zone 1 for pseudo-italian dinner at Piccadilly’s (cheap and yummy).

• Up to the apartment to watch “Big Fish” dvd on my laptop.

• And then, go to bed.

No wait… I can’t go to sleep yet… I have to write another #$&% journal entry for my homepage!

Posted by elcanche at August 20, 2004 11:30 PM