I just finished my first shift of training for a new position within one of my current places of employment, and although I have learned my lesson from Dooce and will not discuss intimate details of work here, there is one little perk I absolutely must share:
I GET TO SIT DOWN. This is the first time in ten years I have had a job that doesn't require me to be constantly on my feet and nearly constantly moving. It is almost permanently ingrained in my motor memory to instantly, like a reflex, come to full attention whenever a manager is around. I swear it's going to take six months before I learn that sitting is not only OKAY, it is NECESSARY to prevent slumping over the COMPUTER which sits on the DESK which has its own CHAIR covered in LEATHER and it's CUSHIONED AND IT SPINS! AND I CAN READ WHILE I'M IN IT! SPINNING! SITTING! SIT-N-SPIN! AND READ! AND TALK ON THE PHONE!
Okay, seriously, there are a lot of responsibilities and blah blah blah, but COME ON! A CHAIR! LEATHER! SPINS! CHAIR! LEATHER! SPINS!
If we get telephone headsets, I'm going to have an orgasm.
Posted by stephanie at November 22, 2005 07:21 PMbeware the sitting down.
the ass, more than any other creature, takes darwin's "survival of the fittest" to heart. Once you rely on your ass to support you for more than 4 hours a day, it starts to grow stronger and wider. It does this for your own good. It only wants to provide for you a nice, flat, stable base for your sitting activities. It does this because it must be the best sitting appendage it can be.
Posted by: jason at November 22, 2005 10:56 PMThanks for the warning, but I'm sure my ass could use a little more cushion. Balance it out with the Pilates class your wife and I will (hopefully) be signing up for in January, and I'm aiming for the end product (ha!) to look something like this: http://www.gceleb.com/pictures-1/jennifer_lopez/jennifer_lopez_96.jpg .
:D
Posted by: Stephanie at November 23, 2005 06:48 AM