Law Students

Please Allow Me a Moment of Self-Pity

By Anonymous

Currently sitting on my desk at work:

~ Tylenol Sore Throat/Fever/BodyAches/Headache Daytime medicine with Instant Cool Burst Sensation
~ Giant 2 Tbl medicine cup from my 11:00 a.m. dosing that I haven't had time to wash
~ Big cup of chamomile tea with honey
~ Costco size container of honey because it's the only one we had in my house. It came to work in a ziploc freezer bag nestled prevariously close to my laptop in my shoulder bag.
~ 11,256,231,489 pieces of paper
~ 5,324,826 post-it flags in a variety of coordinated colors
~ 4 different sizes of yellow post-its
~ 3 different sizes of binder clips
~ 2 chapsticks
~1 box of kleenex
~ 6 to-do lists of varying size and project type

And behind the desk is a very sick, achey, swollen throat lawyer whose husband is coaching every night from 5:30-7:30 for the next month so she now has to get out the door for daycare pick-up every day and care for their lovable, but increasingly toddleresque child by herself when all she really wants to do is crawl under the covers and pass out or cry or watch terrible daytime tv or all three.

Okay. Deep breath. Big cough. Squaring shoulders. Soldiering on.

Full post as published by Lag Liv on April 20, 2009 (boomark / email).