Random Work Moments

• Listening to childhood stories about curling
• Pretending I care about hockey
• Silently calculating in my head what -22C is in Fahrenheit (-8F)
  
• Politely ignoring anti-American whining
• Receiving pathetic-sounding voice mails from people who are calling in sick
• Surrendering control as my cubicle was packed up, moved 5 feet forward, moved 3 feet backward and then unpacked
  
• Fielding phone calls, emails, appointments and uninvited drop-ins from sales reps
  
• Rejecting a request to put up signs in the ladies room reminding women to flush after crapping
• Finding a corporate sponsor to support our seminar series (a win for me, it is the first time I have ever lined up a blanket sponsorship)
  
• Touring the construction zone and finding one wall in the wrong place and two windows that were completely walled in with no vacant space for the window frame and glass
  
• Mediating a screaming match
• Listening to WXRTChicago at my cubicle and feeling homesick
• Enjoying dinner with the team and ending the evening with a colleague having an asthma attack and barfing her chicken curry onto the lawn
• Cutting my hair short, buying new lipstick, wearing a new outfit to work and getting compliments from both men and women on my new look
• Feeling tired, bored, overwhelmed and irritated with just about everyone, even the kind-good-hearted-hard-working-employees
• Struggling with being diplomatic 100% of the time, especially when someone is being a stupid asshole
  
• Suppressing the use of the F word
  
• Admiring the delicious, nutritious lunches the Chinese women enjoy in the lunchroom
• Watching how the faculty use their egos to get their own way
  
• Wearing my Australian purple heels even though it is cold lately
  

And you? Any work moments to share?

Cinquain

Samosa
Potato pastry,
Fried golden pouch.
I should eat one.
Four!

Laundry
Dirty clothes
Baskets piled high
White tees (one red)
Ruined

Chai
Daily ritual
Caffeine sugar milk
Hot frothy morning cup
Sacred

Prawns
Nicknamed shrimp
Raw fried sauteed
Pierce them on skewers
Barbecue

Husband
Love life
Packs my lunch
My dear best friend
Handsome

Jesse
Retired greyhound
Tired, bald, silly
Friendship wakes me up
Dog

I used to cook, write and knit after work and on the weekends. Over the holidays I knit a few failed projects and I lost my creative mojo. Ever since then I have been moping around the house, watching TV, surfing the web, etc. and finally decided to do something to find my mojo. So, I went to Toys R Us and bought some non-toxic clay. The result is a crooked Ganesh holding a laddoo.

Have you ever lost your mojo? How did you get it back? I need your advice, leave your ideas in the comments section, please!