Everyday Canvas

Deadlines, Laws, Weather

Prompt: How do you respond under pressure...deadlines, due dates, tests, etc.?

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First, I try not to panic. Then I make the time, get to work, and do the best that I can. If my output doesn’t live up my or anyone else’s expectation, so be it. I have worked with tight deadlines in the past and I was okay with that, but I wouldn’t like to be pushed around again, in my later years.

Some people need and crave deadlines; otherwise, they procrastinate. That isn’t me. I’d rather have some kind of a time limit but a flexible one.

Prompt: You've been given diplomatic immunity. Would you break any laws knowing you'd never get prosecuted for it? If so, which ones?

To start with, I try not to break any laws, diplomatic immunity or not.

Let me think of a situation, though. If someone is hurt in some way and I can do something about it, I will. I am not going to stop and ask, “Are you a criminal, an illegal alien, or running away from the law in some way?” I might still ask those things, but after I’ve given a person any help that I can give.

Prompt: Maybe it's just the lack of sunlight, the weather itself but I've been in a dark place emotionally. What about you? Does the weather impact your moods?

Sorry, you aren’t feeling up to par.

The weather itself doesn’t affect me. I am adaptable with that.

Yet, the results of what the weather causes can make me upset, like what happens after a hurricane, the mess I have to clean up and the people I need to find to fix the broken parts of the house.

In cold, icy, snowy weather, when we had the 300 feet driveway and I had to shovel when others couldn’t, that used to make me upset.

If I lived in California, which I wouldn’t want to for many reasons, I wouldn’t like to go through what those people are going through with the earthquakes, fires, and mudslides. Just watching them on the news makes me upset.