ONCE BITTEN

After Friday it's really hard to get motivated. OK, so maybe my boss didn't know what he was getting me into, but how often have I let people talk me into stuff that wasn't what they said? The party with all the "influential people" that turned out to be a lot less than that, the "great guy" I absolutely had to meet whom I had already met and wasn't attracted to? The job that turned out setting me back financially and professionally, the beautiful house with the psychotic housemate who ended up getting me evicted? Let's not even get into Dell Computer and Turbotax. It's getting harder to answer the ad, make the phone call, send the e-mail, RSVP to the invitation.