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You know you're too freakin' busy when...
Insights from SpunOutters.
Life can get crazy busy sometimes. In fact, being stressed out and having no time can even be seen as 'the norm.' Especially with talk of the recession looming on every corner, many people feel like being busy is a virtue. Perhaps people are so grateful to be busy that they go overboard!
In keeping with this theme, SpunOut.ie asked SpunOutters how they know they are getting way too buuuuuuusy. You just know you are too freakin' busy when...
- You hit the refresh button before the previous time you hit the refresh button has had time to work.
- Seeing 'Internet Cannot Display Webpage' after writing a lengthy email is the worst thing that could possibly happen to you.
- You have more than five tabs open at any given time.
- “I’ll be done in a minute!” could be written in Latin and used as your personal crest.
- No matter how late you are when going out, you always have to dart back in to get something you forgot at least twice.
- You’ve developed a photographic memory for public transport timetables.
- A weekend day is just like any other day, but with more casual clothes.
- If, for whatever reason, you have to go away for a few days without internet access, you first feel heightened panic, followed by a sense of sheer analogue bliss.
- Followed by heightened panic as soon as you get back again.
- You commonly breathe a sigh of relief when a project is done. Only to breathe a sigh of dismay when you realise you’ve still got at least three more to go.
- You often forget to eat.
- You often lift your head and wonder where the sunshine has gone.
- You get an endorphin rush when you get new mail in your inbox.
- You’ve got so used to getting your news online that holding a newspaper feels a bit weird.
- Even the slightest deviation from your schedule will take hours to make up.
- Your idea of relaxing is working on something with a longer deadline.
- You go do your weekly shop at persistently unsociable hours.
- Your friends greet you on the street by saying “I know, I know, you can’t stop.”
- Your conversations generally last about 30 seconds at a time.
- You genuinely start to wish you had some kind of time-stopping device.
- You hear phones ringing even when you’re not in a room with any phones in it.
- You not only double book, but triple book appointments.
- Your text messages get so short that people begin to wonder if you’re being held hostage/are intoxicated in the middle of the day/or have suffered a terrible head injury!
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