Work.

Today is another day, another dollar, where we Americans go to work and paper-push and finger-type until our heads fall off and nearly expolode after we cannot take the drama any longer.

All around America people are checking their email and prepping for meetings and watching the clock tick wondering why it is going SO slow, especially now that the time change has ocurred and it starts to get dark beginning at 3:30. The mundane Monday has begun in the working world where we sink back into the reality of the 7AM rise.

Bloggers, writers, designers, and editors, sink their teeth into new feed from weekend media blasts and tackle story after photo after Tweet. They devour the chance to lay their hand on another fresh piece of news and make it public, in a fancy schmancy twist.

Presenters travel to new cities giving speeches at conferences while coveting new pin-striped suits in bustling markets with window shops. Their job is to teach, persuade, convince, instill, and inspire. And they perhaps may just do that by their sheer looks and swagger alone.

Consultants are giving advice on various topics to clients about strategies and how to obtain results. And in a hurry, messages become fabricated at the last minute and old data is used to recreate new information.

Fashionistas are designing new clothes for runway models in the hopes of catching the eye of prestigous magazine owners as they shop for new patterns for their patchworks.

Teachers are executing tiresome lesson plans and grading quizzes, while university professors are dealing with absentee students. Buses are en route to various neighborhoods picking up children while others are passing by their normal avenues without a stop for those running late. Little do these kids know, they'll be walking to school on this brisk Monday morning. "Uphill, both ways, with no shoes."

Bakers are preparing cakes and treats for parties and weddings, while local restaurants are firing up their grills for afternoon visits from business executives.

Project Managers are creating and changing timelines and dealing with unhappy and angry clients. Conference calls are being scheduled and scoping meetings are identifying pertinent deliverables for clients to further manipulate and alter, and then change back and reschedule again. Resources are being exhausted and client service people are being stretched scarecely thin.

Today is another day in the working world in cities that never sleep. And tonight, we will go home, try to relax, prop our feet up on the couch, watch our favorite TV show, and repeat the process again tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day.

Eternally, we are bound to work. It makes the world go-round and gives us that green stuff we need to pay our bills. Or rather, the plastic stuff. We must learn ever so eagerly how to not consume our minds with the evil nature consumption brings. For too much of anything can be bad.