Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Things I Can't Do
~by Jay

Lurk on a listserv.

Talk to a drug rep without feeling overwhelmingly angry.

Pick up a cereal box without reading the back.

Start a mystery series in the middle.

Listen to ABBA without singing along.

Lie to my mother.

Sit in the lotus position.

4 comments:

Christian Sinclair, MD said...

Do you meant to say that you MUST say something on a list-serv, or that you can't stand the chatter back and forth and you must remove yourself!

Congrats on your switching to hospice only. I think you may find it to be a 1.5 position still ;-P

Jay said...

Oh, I must say something. I must. Every now and then someone posts and says "I've been lurking for years..." and I think "how do they do that"?

And at the moment I'm doing two 0.5 jobs that add up to something >1.0, so it won't be that much of a change!

Tigermom said...

When I found myself unable to post to my favorite listserve I found it:

1. unbearable
2. freed up more time
3. freeing to listen without writing in my own thoughts
4. a wee bit amazing that life went on "without" me

sara said...

I am also in nofreelunch, and I HATE them...yet now, I was thinking of taking a job doing that. It looks so much easier...