Maybe I'll Just Hand Address Them, If Nothing Else Works

I can't sit in a desk chair.  I mean, I CAN - you know, I can physically sit there, yes.  But I cannot stay there for any length of time in any sort of comfortable position.  My body has this strange distaste for putting both feet flat on the floor, and so I am forever pulling one leg up in the chair under the other, or sitting Indian style, or trying to somehow crouch in the chair, looking for all the world like I am preparing to pounce on something I see inside the computer monitor.

None of these positions are comfortable.  Try them.  Go ahead, I'll wait.  Yeah, try the Indian style one, too.  See?  The weird tiger pounce position is actually the most comfortable of all, unless the chair is a rolling style.  Then it's just downright dangerous.

So, you can see, I am at a loss.  How am I supposed to blog and write and do all the Internet-y things I like when I can't for the life of me get comfortable in any chair, ever?  I am currently sitting on the floor typing this out, but only because it's been an unforgivable amount of time since I've updated this site, and I'm sacrificing for the greater good.  Do I need to invest in some kind of chaise lounge in which I can, well, lounge as I type?  Because that seems awfully princessy and diva-ish to me.  Maybe a giant bean bag of sorts?  I think a hot tub would be nice, but I don't feel confident that my MacBook is 100% waterproof.

In other news, I have to buy Microsoft Office for my Mac.  For some reason (probably my total lack of knowledge on such subjects) I thought that once I needed the Office Suite, and my MacBook pre-installed test drive expired, I could just click a button and PRESTO!  The full version of Office would be installed!  Within five minutes!  And I could just pay for it online with my credit card!  But no!  You have to go to a real live store.  And talk to a real live person, and really buy it, with real money and everything.  Which is way too much of a hassle, and so I am typing about 500 addresses into my Apple Address Book, which will probably end up being a massive waste of time, as I will likely never find a way to integrate the 500 addresses into any coherent program that will print address labels for me.  Thus, I need the Microsoft Office, so that I can just type these stupid addresses into Excel and then, you know.  Use them and stuff.

But the store, and the driving, and the actual physical act of installing the software!  Not to mention having to pretend that I am either a student or a teacher of something so that I can buy the much less expensive Student/Teacher version of the Suite.  It all sounds so terrible that I am just typing away, into my Apple Address Book, knowing all the while that I am most assuredly squandering an entire evening, diligently entering addresses for nothing.

Actually, I'm not sure you can use the word "diligently" in any sentence regarding me and feel really great about it.  So never mind that last part.

What I've chosen to do, as you might have noticed, is not really think about the problem, and instead just aimlessly throw a poorly thought-out half-solution at it, hoping that somehow things will all turn out in the end.  I've found that this is a nice way to live my life, and so I am sticking with it.  We'll call it New Year's Resolution 2007: Lazier Than Ever, And Yet Still Somehow Limping Along!

I like it.  Do you like it?  Because I like it.

Comments

[Susan]

I like it.

Also, I find that ass on sofa/feet on ottoman/iBook in lap/cup of tea at elbow is the best possible writing position. For what it's worth.

[janet]

this all reminds me...are you happy with your Macbook purchase?

[Pablover]

I hope you get a chaise lounge and enjoy it, because you will most certainly be lounging in a chair of disaster soon. Very soon. And the chair will then pay homage to the great and wonderful backyardigans, who you have so carelessly mocked.

Oh, and you should read an article in the Economist regarding new online systems that are eclipsing Microsoft Office that even lowly mac users can access.

But mostly demise!!!

[anastasia beaverhausen]

I sit and open the drawer of my nearby filing cabinet so that I can prop my feet on it. Like a little footstool. Works great.

[talley]

you could use Open Office instead of Microsoft Office. It's open source software so it's totally free, and you could totally free yourself from everything Microsoft.

www.openoffice.org

[Helen]

I am the very deal on comfy laptopping. Big soft leather chair, big soft leather footstool, paltop on on of those laptrays with beanbaggy type bottom. Feet up, lap top perfect position, am in heaven, especially when I find you have updated and I have some new reads!

[markira]

So I started reading this, and immediately there was laughter because I *am* sitting Indian-style in my chair. I'm actually pretty comfy, too. I also go back and forth with the one-foot-under-the-other-leg position, and if I am just reading, as opposed to typing, I will sometimes prop my feet up on the corner of the desk (although this is a good way to cut off my circulation, because I am double-jointed in my knees and they usually lock backwards when I do that).

My problem (or, more specifically, ONE of my problems--by far not the only one) is that I am short-legged, and when I have the chair at the right height for my typing, etc, my feet don't touch the floor. And I haven't gotten around to getting a footstool or anything that would make sense.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who has "position issues." ;) mk

[Laurie]

I still have a box from a recent move at work under my desk so I can prop my feet up on it while I type. But the only way to truly get comfortable this way is to kick off my shoes. It drives my boss nuts! :)

[markira]

So, I continue to check your blog to see if there are any NEW POSTS PLEASE, and I laugh each and every time because I keep forgetting about this most recent post and yet each time I am SITTING INDIAN STYLE IN MY CHAIR!

Thought about you last night when I did the backwards-locking-of-knees thing, too.

Hugs,
mk