10. Sinkful of dinner dishes
9. Paparazzi infestations
8. Block-rockin’ beats
7. Oprah love fests
6. “We report, you decide”
5. Housing bubbles
4. Government bail-outs
3. Hillary wooing the working class
2. Sitcom pitches
1. Blog updates
(Please feel free to add whatever garden-variety annoyances encourage you to hit the trail).
No paparazzi.. but close. I did run into a modeling shoot on the trail about a month ago.
We used to have models come by the paper for fashion shoots when I worked in Tampa — it was stunning how much more striking their appearance was compared to mere mortals.
No boss trying to track you down by cell phone and email – just to yell.
Of course, it might happen, but with the Blackberry in the car, how would I know! 🙂
This is too easy….
No smog (or little)
No urban sprawl or traffic
No junk mail
No City hum
No Lowered Hondas with boom boxes
No Idiots accidently setting off car alarms
No insulting advertising
Best of all: I’m not at work
I could go on but why take em all……….
I notice “drinking wine” isn’t listed. (Good!)
OK, so how ’bout: “Being passed on the trail by pasty-faced Nintendo gamers?”
Or: “Deer, bobcats and the like using GPS devices.”
no television
no one to answer to
no deadlines, other than darkness
no noise, other than nature
no pressure to conform
No fluorescent lights
No cubicle walls
No calendars, paper or electronic
No phones with more buttons on ’em than I’ll ever push
No jamming your knees into the keyboard tray that I don’t use
No buzzing fluorescent lights
No cover memos, for TPS reports or anything else
No elevator music
No waiting for the elevator
No sick people sneezing and coughing their germs all over the elevator
No elevator
Sigh. Back to work ….