…and whoopi goldberg is unavailable for comment. I’ve tried everything, but focusing on work is difficult today. Oddly enough though, I’m getting a lot accomplished. Or maybe it just feels like it because all of my peeps are finally back in the office. Here’s my special things-to-do for people suffering from a post-holiday lack of motivation:

1. Eat a giant pixie stick. Supposedly the sugar is supposed to wake you up. (side note: this hasn’t started working for me yet. Or maybe it has. Now my stomach hurts a bit, which I guess is keeping me awake).
2. Delete old email. Particularly if you’re company is like mine, we have a max limit on the amount of email you can have stored on the server before they lock your account. I’ve still got 15 MB to go, but with the amount of SPAM I’ve received over the holidays (even the SPAM blocker summaries are around 1.5 MB) there’s a lot that I can simply delete.
3. Make plans for watching the Orange Bowl. Though I’m not a huge football fan, I’ve still gotta watch my team win it again.
4. Do not take a long lunch! It’ll just make the day seem longer. Take a short lunch and get the hell out early.
5. Ask everyone that you can tolerate how their holiday went. Make sure it’s people you like though. There’s nothing worse than being trapped in a conversation wishing you could be blankly staring at your monitor.
6. Check out the webcast archives on xfm.co.uk. New music makes the time go by faster.
7. Shop for shoes at zappos.com. I got the first pair I ordered yesterday and I must say, I’m extremely happy with it. They had a free shipping offer (2nd day air) and after reading through the info that came with the shoes, they have an extremely generous return policy. 365 days. Perfect for pocrastinators like me.
8. Envy Chris at Twenty-One Outs Twice. I don’t know this guy, but I’ve been reading his blog over the last couple weeks and he’s going to Atlantis, which is definitively the most beautiful place I’ve ever been. He also has an impressive attention span because he can play 8 hold’em tables online at once. I have a hard time with 4, partially due to the fact that my resolution is too low to have them all visible at once. It’s impressive nonetheless.

This list may be hitting you a bit late, in which case you can change some of the time critical info (ie-rather than planning for the Orange Bowl, make fun whichever team lost, curse the BCS system, or make rude remarks about how weak the PAC-10 conference is). New Year’s trip report coming soon. So, how was your New Year’s?