A Penny For My Thoughts
Weekend, What Weekend?
By Paul Wein

Right now, it is Monday morning at 7:30am and I am once again sitting behind my desk at the Department Of Buildings. And despite the fact that I have not been here since Friday – I feel like I left here five minutes ago.

Last night, I woke up around two in the morning when I felt Christine’s arm wrap around me. After I told her I loved her – I said, “Please don’t tell me that we have to go to work tomorrow.” – because to me – that’s all I did all weekend.

This past weekend – if you want to call it that – I spent most of Saturday and the latter part of Sunday working on Ring Fever. Saturday morning, Rob, Lee, Christine and I drove around Marine Park promoting the Rock and Wrestling Extravaganza that we had yesterday. Then, just a few hours later, we went to Video Game Central in Queens to interview Chyna – and then yesterday, I had to be at the Baron DeKalb Knights of Columbus at two o’clock for the aforementioned Extravaganza. So if you take away the time that I worked this weekend and then total the hours I spent relaxing, sleeping, and spending quality time with Christine – you could count those very few hours on one hand.

Don’t get me wrong, I love to do Ring Fever stuff, it’s just that when you work all day on your days off – it makes your Monday a lot more difficult to deal with then it normally is. Nobody likes Mondays to begin with – but when that Monday comes after two days off that were anything but days off – you really want to crawl back under the covers and sleep the day away – but you can’t – and neither can I.

I guess I should not complain, seeing as how between the Department of Buildings, South Park and Ring Fever – there is no such thing as a day off. And truth be told, I love what I do so I don’t even see the things I do as work. But still and all – couldn’t today be Sunday instead of Monday?

“I'm a hard-workin' man, I'm a son of a gun.
I've been workin' all week in the noonday sun.
The wood's in the kitchen and the cow's in the barn.
I'm all cleaned up and my chores are all done.”

Steve Miller Band – Dance Dance Dance