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| Clock from Shellyka |
In a world where much smarter brains than mine reside, there are lots of theories about time. Quantum Theory. String Theory. Etc., etc. I don't pretend to get any of it. However, I do have my own theory about time. And here it is:
Gnomes live in my clocks. I'm sure they're quite happy and comfortable there but they are very, very naughty. Just when I think I'm going to have time to do something, they move the hands of the clock and speed up time so I have no time at all to do anything of any lasting importance. They also work in reverse, slowing the clock down, usually during Sunday School and meetings at work.
I know I'm not alone in this problem. Lots of people I know also say they don't have time to do the things they want to do. They should check their clocks for gnomes, also.
Work gets more than its share of time, so I believe that the gnomes in the hospital clocks are especially good at what they do.Taking a day off doesn't help - it only makes the day I go back worse and I have less time than before. Having watched other Chief Nursing Officers I've worked under scramble with their calendars I erroneously thought that I'd be better than that. I'd be able to control my calendar. In the immortal words of my daughter:
hahahahahahahahahahahaha........
That calendar controls me. Gnomes must really hate Chief Nursing Officers.
I have the blessing and the curse of being interested in lots of (maybe too many?) things but there isn't enough time to pursue them with any success. For instance:
- I gave myself until June (yes, this past June) to finish my Dad's book. I'm on Chapter 2.
- We have this wild hair to visit France and hike the village-to-village walking trails in two years which has prompted me to want to learn conversational French. So far, I can say: "Comment vas tu?" (How are you?) and "Ou sont les toilettes?" (Where is the restroom?)
- I have this wonderful Nikon D5000 camera, which every now and then I take a really good picture with, but I know it will do more. I have the books. I have Photoshop. I have the subscription to the website. I just don't have the time.
- I have some really nice piano solo music written. It just takes time to get it recorded and published.
- There are so many books and so little time. Currently I'm reading The Help (I know, I know - everybody else has already read it, but remember that I have a Gnome Infestation and I don't have any time!). Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andrei Malkine is coming up next. The title sounded like a great book to read during the summer but, at the rate I'm going, it may be fall before I get to it.
- And, of course, where it really gets annoying is that there is never, never, never enough time for this:
My next task after posting this will be to search for a good Gnome Removal Company.
If I can find time.