And in the spirit of menless Monday, I’ll explain a bit why - as the eldest daughter I have so much responsibility for family stuff that my brothers pretend they can’t help with, and their weaponised incompetence means I have to take on so much more responsibility which is sadly not unique to women. So I get extra tired of the boring day to day stuff and try to make it fun for myself, and would love to hear what other things like this people do.
For example, when cleaning my shoes (something I hate and have to do often as I like walking in the grass), I pretend to be a Victorian shoe shiner and mutter Victorian shoe shiney things to myself which cheers me up a bit
If I have a long to-do list filled with things I don’t want to do, I use a random number generator (or sometimes roll an actual die) to chose the thing I work on next
Got a few ways of introducing a bit of fun to the fairly monotonous task of driving a train that are probably still too tedious to share with normal people.
That’s exactly the kind of nerdy bored train driver antics I was after, I do a similar thing in cars when the speed limit drops down, trying to coast down to it as a personal challenge. Also, trying to stop at traffic lights through the power of physics alone is a good one.
When I’m marking I’ll give myself (often super banal) rewards to look forward to:
-when I’ve marked the next five essays I’ll get up and open the window.
-when I’ve marked the next five I’ll go to the loo
-when I’ve marked the next five I’ll check DiS.
My electric toothbrush has three settings that are tonally (first and second at least) the same interval as ‘once in royal David’s city’ so I tap the button while I brush my teeth and sing it in my head and then get weeeeirded out when third is a semitone
I imagine that makes your job as a massage therapist a lot less boring.
I sometimes pretend I’m a YouTube influencer doing a video on, say, how to clean your bathroom, racking up a million views. I appreciate I’m a very sad person.