Wednesday three.

I'm a firm believer in the concept, "if you already know the answer, don't ask the question." Today I was asked what I wanted to offload from my plate at work, and I was pretty blunt and honest about exactly what I wanted to offload and why, and instead of it being offloaded, I'm now IN CHARGE of it. Because it had already been predetermined that I would be in charge of it. And that is AWESOME. Especially since everyone else who had their say actually got to offload stuff from their own plate. AWESOME.

With that in mind, I made up a list of things that don't suck about my current job. It was a short list, and sadly only qualified for a Wednesday three this week.

It goes a little something like this: My job does not suck because I have ready access to ...

• Patton Oswalt
• David Cross
• David Sedaris

... via their concert CDs/book audiotapes, and I'm not afraid to play their incessantly inappropriate workplace humor in my earbuds relentlessly, over and over, and giggle throughout.

Of course, pretty good health care, a 401K and paid vacation that enables me to lollygag in the polar arctic with penguins and albatross and icebergs and whales next spring helps. A little.

I'm also a big fan of "if you don't really wanna know, don't ask the question." I stopped by Trader Joe's on the way home from work, and those people are just so nice. The guy pricing my items asked me how my day had been going so far, and I replied, "honestly, not so great..." He seemed truly sad that my day had been crappy, so I asked about his day in a peppy voice, and then I gestured to the bottle of wine and spaghetti makings in my handcart to indicate that my day was fixing to be a lot better. And he smiled, in an "oh you pathetic office drone I love my job so much more than you" way, and now I'm enjoying a glass of wine while he's still at work, so who is the joke really on?