How did your week go?

Let’s see, last week was the week of June 18 through the 24^th. My first response to the question of how my week went is usually a quick knee jerk reaction of just a few words like, “fine,” or “not too bad.” When someone asks me that question I never really care to elaborate or truly delve into my personal life with them because I don’t really see the point.  Nine times out of ten that person really doesn’t care to hear the answer because their question was just as automated as my response was.  It was a polite gesture made to come off as friendly as possible without putting in too much effort to actually get to know me.

There are times that the question is legitimate though. How does one tell if it is or isn’t you might ask? Well, in my experience it all depends on who the question is coming from and the tone of voice. If you have known the person for quite some then the chances of that question being sincere is significantly higher.  I would say that the chances go up for every month or two of actually knowing that person. Tone of voice plays the biggest role though. You can tell everything from the tone of voice. On paper, tone of voice means almost nothing so I won’t waste my time trying to describe how a sincere question sounds versus one that was spit out of the mouth for small talks sake. Everyone knows when someone is sincere and when someone isn’t. It’s an innate gift that we all have so all you need to do is look back on your own experiences and recognize the truth of what I am saying from your own perspective.

Now that I have that out of the way, I guess I can tell you how my week went. Monday morning I woke up at about 9:00 AM and immediately went to the kitchen to make a fresh banana smoothie.  I love banana smoothies.  I have one every day, sometimes two. After my smoothie I decided it was probably best to perform my daily ablutions which, was quite successful if you wanted to know because I finished smelling like a phoenix, or so my bottle of Axe tells me that that is how a phoenix smells. After that, I knew I didn’t have anything else to do until class at three but just as I thought about class I remembered that I needed to do a blog post so I could get credit for it being done on time. I started up my computer and then worked on my blog post for maybe a half hour or so…

You know, I just realized that even you do not want to hear a play by play of my week. Heck I’m bored just telling you about it myself. So, in order to save myself time and a lot of thinking because I didn’t keep a journal for last week, I think I’ll just finish this post with the highlights. I think that may have been the intention of the question anyway but I couldn’t tell because the question was written down. See, tone of voice is everything!

The rest of the week went along pretty smooth.  I started my first week of P90X and I also had an interview for a new position at my workplace that will allow me to change shifts from the graveyard to afternoons. That would be really nice if I got it but I’m just going to have to wait and see.