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I am *so* unmotivated.

I mean, not the oh god I hate my job-ish type of unmotivated, inspired by a need to underachieve to a startling degree and slink by on the bare minimum. Oh no. I am unmotivated where I am envying the life of a sloth--a sloth who hangs in trees and actually, God help me, grows mold on its hair from its sheer frenzy of not moving.

I am sitting here, in my not terribly uncomfortable chair, staring at my monitor, wistfully envying the life of a sloth

If I were right now to write down my favorite thing to do, it would be staring into space with a blank expression, thinking of nothing at all.

Also, there was about a ten minute pause between the line above and this one? That was me. Staring blankly into space.

Dear God. I'm becoming a sloth. A giant three toed tree sloth growing mold.

This is brought to you by Monday, the only day of the week I wear make-up to work. Mostly because it being Monday, I always figure the day needs something to get me through it.

Tags: jenn's life, the eternal darkness of sloths, work

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ratcreature

2007-01-22 10:54 pm (UTC)

Well, you get no sympathy from me. Sloth is my default state. :)

seperis

2007-01-23 12:29 am (UTC)

*giggles* I need an icon for it too! I like yours!

2007-01-23 12:34 am (UTC)

Yeah, your current one really doesn't convey "sloth" at all. Rather the opposite, I mean, he looks so intense and focused...

eternallycait

2007-01-22 10:59 pm (UTC)

I have, max, about two hours of work to fill a 8 hour day. Sometimes I stare at the screen and type just to make the clacking sound so other people will think I am working.

We have weird and strange lives.

luthorienne

2007-01-22 11:10 pm (UTC)

I hear alcohol-based substances are excellent at preventing mold growth.

I meant perfume, of course. Preferably something outrageously expensive.

2007-01-23 12:30 am (UTC)

I can see this, vodka in my coffee while I regale clients with my various life experiences.

Hey, it could totally make my day more fun.

fyrdrakken

2007-01-24 05:37 pm (UTC)

Nope, Irish cream. That way you get real cream instead of that crap that tends to be packaged as creamer, plus booze!

akacat

2007-01-22 11:32 pm (UTC)

I feel the same way! Ok, I actually feel both ways, the underachiever way, and the sloth way.

I'm going to buy a few powerball tickets tomorrow. If I win I can become a professional sloth.

If you win, marry me? We coudl totally create a *new standard* of slothdom.

2007-01-23 01:19 am (UTC)

We could be prophets. We'll usher in a new age of slothdom.

2007-01-25 12:24 pm (UTC)

I didn't win. *huge emo sigh* I guess the engagement's off, then?

thepouncer

2007-01-22 11:53 pm (UTC)

Oh my god, yes. I wrote two drabbles today, and otherwise surfed around the internet, cursing the LJ block yet again. And then I got home and collapsed at my strenuous day.

2007-01-23 12:31 am (UTC)

*dies laughing*

I didn't even do drabbles! I tried to write Lorne/Mensa!John sex and just could not get--er, inspired.

*sad*

2007-01-23 12:51 am (UTC)

I'd eke out ten words and go read another news article. It was horrid. I'm trying to finish the O.C. juviefic I've been working on since summer of *2004* before the last episode airs, and I could not concentrate on it at all.

But Lorne! Mensa!John! Pretty and wanted!

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2007-01-23 12:32 am (UTC)

*blank look* Sloths. Slothes. Sloth.

I don't know. Huh. I should look that up.

Also. May I steal that picture to make an icon, please?

melblue

2007-01-23 12:41 am (UTC)

Visiting your LJ again because I like it so much!

I'm rather fond of sloth-like zone-outs - I've become an expert at staring blankly out of windows. Unfortunately they are uncontrollable sometimes, yesterday I did it just as I was phoning someone and left the most embarrassing message on an answering machine ever. Why didn't I just hang up?

chibikaie

2007-01-23 04:22 am (UTC)

Can I complain about my new 40 hour work week now? Where I don't get to sit down more than 10 minutes and get paid less than $10 an hour and have to keep inventory in my brain because the computer system is fed bad data? Oh yeah, and the store closes in another two months.

:(

sloths

laceymcbain

2007-01-23 06:10 pm (UTC)

Did you know that sloths spend their entire lives in the trees, only coming down about once a week to pee, which is good because sloth pee from above doesn't seem like a good thing to me.

(It's possible I've been watching too much Discovery Channel.)

barbaragray1212

2007-01-23 11:59 pm (UTC)

You are very lucky that you HAVE a job.

2007-01-24 02:04 am (UTC)

Lucky in that there are some that need them? Yes. Lucky tht I worked to get the skill level necessary to get through one screen and a written interview. No. That wasn't luck. That's been pretty good at what I do.

Hmm. That's three times now. So--taking into account you go back a year in

svmadelyn's lj to make disparaging remarks about me twice, then wander across this fairly boring entry to do a bit more, and you don't have me friended so you wouldn't just see this entry at random on your flist, I'm thinking this is weirdly personal. Since I can't ever remember actually interacting with you, and considering the two earlier remarks, it's probably fannish.

Stop now.

mecurtin

2007-01-24 02:45 am (UTC)

Algae. They grow algae in their fur, not mold. *Green* algae. Plants, in fact.

...that isn't better. Seriously? Algae?

I'm a sloth growing algae. Dearest God.

2007-01-24 02:57 am (UTC)

*sniffs* I think it makes them more *special*. Like coral, which also grow algae. Only sloths are a bit faster.

They also sometimes have moths in their fur, eating the algae. A whole ecosystem! Maybe you could get a little lizard in there, to eat the moths! Child would like that. *nod nod*

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