Monday morning: if you feel happy, you're still dreaming.

I entered the office almost skipping. I was looking forward to the day, filled with a calm yet palpable sense of joie de vivre.  This is highly unusual for a Monday morning.

I thought, today is going to be the start of an awesomely productive week. I'll blaze through work like a focused laser beam, cutting through problems and ignoring distractions. This is what practice is, this is what being a lawyer ought to be and, and, and...

And then I read an something about the work I had to do, I thought, forget it, just forget it, I'm actually going to look for a distraction.