Monday morning at work.

7.50am - Arrive at work, Tim Horton's (2 milks and 1 sugar, please) in hand

7.52am - Say my 'good mornings' to everyone after logging into my computer

7.54am - Chat with coworkers

8.00am - Doors are open for business (the early rising customers arrive)

8.01am - Go to thestar.com --> skim headlines; read the editorial cartoon; read the comics (Sherman's Lagoon is a must)

8.07am - Read actual news stories

8.25-30 - Go to torontosun.com; read more comics (Adam and Ziggy)

9.00am - Customer arrives; try to pan him/her/them off on someone else

9.20am - Customer leaves

9.30am - 11.59pm - More arrive...more leave; attempt actual "work"; log in to MSN while attempting "work"; go to my daily visited websites; check on any eBay auctions I'm bidding on.

12.00pm - LUNCH!

1.00pm - Now it's busy (boo) must put on the professional persona and model employee cloak and carry on with the afternoon

4.00pm - T-minus 30 minutes and counting; pretend to be busy so I don't have to serve more clients

4.10pm - 20 minutes to go

4.25pm - Store away files and work (i.e. throw into drawer where I can worry about it tomorrow)

4.30 - Freedom! I mean, ahem, home time...how quickly the day goes.


6 weeks to go...