Reverse Psychology

Yesterday was the first day in what will be at least 3 weeks of overtime. So my schedule will be, 8-5:30 on M-F, and 8-12 on Saturday.

After day 2, all I can say is, this sucks. It's not so much that I'm actually working an extra hour than usual. I've done that before. I think the thing that sucks is that I don't have a choice about it this time, and that I'm gonna have to do this for at least 3 weeks.

It's weird, back when I was a kid, I used to hate playing piano more than anything else. Now, I really wish I had more time so I could play for fun. You know that story in Tom Sawyer where he hoodwinks his friends into painting the fence for him? Well, I guess I am kind of like those friends.

Some things are ok, as long as I feel like I have a say about it. I don't know about the converse though. If someone put a gun to my head and forced me to play Starcraft all day, I don't think I would mind too much. Like that one Simpsons episode where Homer eats a forbidden doughnut, goes to hell, and they have a "Ironic Punishment Division". So they force feed him doughnuts expecting him to get sick of them, but he never does. Yep, that would be me, except substituting Craft for doughnuts.