Anyways, I think I was talking about work. I am a landscaper, and when I say the word landscaper I still question it's true meaning. In this case the word land means the stuff gravity adheres us to. And then you have scape which to an entymologist means the stemlike basal segment of the antenna of certain insects (Oh the wit is flowing through me). Of course I am referring to it's definition as a scene or view. In retrospect I should have just deleted this whole segment and started over because the definition of scape does not fall neatly into my original intentions with this blog. However I will not deprive you of my boring thoughts despite the fact that even you may find them inane. Instead I will jump to the part where I explain that while I do not feel that 90% of what I do is scaping any land, by definition it really is (as an aside I think of scaping land as changing it's grade or removing mass quantities of earth, or adding mass quantities of earth but that matters not). For instance, under the strictest definition cutting grass would qualify as scaping land as well as would mulching, planting, debris removal, etc... even fertilizing and watering could be considered scaping the land. Nonetheless the dictionary says landscaping is the "improvement" of the appearance of a landscape so now I am really sure that most of what I do is not landscaping.
Excluding the 40 some hours of snow plowing I did this winter, I had 1 week in January, all of February and 11 days in March off. Now I did lots of paperwork preparing letters for the upcoming season and so forth but all in all I did little work compared to what I do in the spring. But, there is a reason why I am writing this and it is because the idea of going back to work has given me a "case of the Mondays". Despite the fact that I will start paying myself again, lose the 25 extra pounds I packed on this winter and experience a bit of normalcy for a change it is quite depressing. Don't get me wrong, I do not want to work... I would rather be a millionaire because I would take my future wife all over the world and then buy a large piece of land and build a house where my wife and I could be baby-making machines. But alas I'm destined to a life governed by the almighty dollar. That's OK though, it's not like everyone else doesn't have to work... It's not like I'm the only one re-describing every week what I would do with my share of the money when I win the lottery. Besides, I really like what I do and I think other than the Top 10 or so glamour jobs that everyone would like to have, even you non-conformists, like pro athlete, rock star, landscaper, video game tester, blog critic, etc, I'm right where I want to be... OK, I could use a little more money but other than that life is grand.
And thanks to me writing this blog I feel much better about getting back to the grind.
- A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. Dorothy L. Sayers English mystery author (1893 - 1957)
- Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
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