Emily Dickinson or The WWF?

Productive: Producing abundantly; fertile; marked by abundant production.

Today I am going to be productive. I will spend every waking moment doing something worthwhile. I will not sit quietly contemplating anything. I will not be comfortable in my skin or anyone else's skin, for that matter. You can forget about TV or reading, unless it is something stimulating and intellectual, like the N.Y. Times travel section or obscure Emily Dickinson poetry or a technical treatise about something or the other.

Whatever I decide to do will probably be the wrong thing. I could be doing something else even more productive. And if I stop what I'm doing and do the even more productive thing, I won't spend enough time doing it. Sure, I may pick up that poetry book but will I really dig deep and understand every nuance and angle, and remember everything I read so I can explain it to other people, who could care less, in most instances? Maybe I should memorize whole passages. Maybe I should go back to school and get a degree in poetry and then teach the shit to rapt graduate school students.

Yeah. That's the ticket.