The older I am, the more a year appears to zip by. in my youth I remember summers that lasted for an age, and the time between one Christmas and the subsequent one seemed infinite.
Nowadays 10 years will fly by in what would seem like minutes.
I remember the New-Year party at the beginning of the century, but it feels like only last week.
However I must acknowledge that I undoubtedly look considerably older than I had done at that time: my salt and pepper locks are evidence of that.
I love watching the changing of the season. It invariably renders me joyful as I head to my closet to take out different clothing for the differing seasons. This January has been so mild that the spring-time plants are starting to appear early. I’ve hardly used my wintertime jacket, and that is a major adjustment from the previous wintertime during which it snowed non-stop for ages.
When it is extremely bitter I attempt not to leave my house, because I do not handle the cold weather particularly well.
My days in the office feel as if they are passing very glacially. It feels like I’m at work forever, staring at my watch.
The other people in our place of work are always talking about predictable TV programs that they saw the night before, or the weekend football, and I end up dreaming about strangling them.
I cannot abide the workplace chat, therefore I just get on with the scanning or shredding, praying that time will speed up. If only I had a more exciting job, or if nothing else a job where I had more interesting co-workers.
Nowadays I sleep a lot more than before.
Back in the day I was able to survive on two or three hours of sleeping a night, however these days I’m completely dysfunctional when I haven’t had a full six. I frequently drop off on the bus home from the office, however I usually wake up in advance of the stage where I get home.
If I was able to, I would spend my lunch-hour asleep at my desk, however regretably that would not be considered appropriate behaviour by my manager.
I think he might be happy to fire me, to be honest, thus I ought to avoid offering him the reason.


