Clock-watchers

Clock-watching is an inevitable and fatal affliction of the office administrator. They put clocks on everything nowadays - your computer, your phone, theres even a clock on my calender - so how are we supposed to avoid clock-watching? After my painful and rather barbaric abscess-draining yesterday morning, the day lagged dismally, every second seeming to take an hour. And sadly this morning is very much akin to yesterday. The phones arent ringing, my to-do list is practically empty, and everyone is deathly silent. I know what you're thinking - why is this girl complaining about it? Surely its a good thing that she has done all her work and the phones arent ringing off the hook? Well, oddly enough, no, its not a good thing. Because it causes us to clock-watch. If i've been busy i dont notice the time, the day goes quickly and i actually feel like i've done something with my day. Boredom always makes me feel sleepy too....half tempted to lay my head down on this pile of files and have a little nap.....unfortunately the 'Big Cheese' director is in the office today, and Jenkins is back from her time at the Hospital of Dooooom so i probably couldnt get away with it. It doesnt help that i have developed 'calender-watching' as well as it is getting closer to Naidel's RnR break. For some reason my brain wont register the fact that no matter how many times i look at the calender its not going to suddenly be tomorrow. Ah well...back to counting the seconds...