Gestão do Tempo


Esta manhã, quando cheguei ao trabalho, cerca das 9:30, já tinha até esse momento (desde que alcei o corpinho da cama) vistoriado os file systems, os logs e as estatísticas do MMSC, nadado dois quilómetros na piscina, vestido, alimentado e transportado os miúdos à escola.

Portanto de cada vez que me vêem com essas tretas da Gestão do Tempo lembro-me logo do livro «Getting Even» do Woody Allen e do texto «Spring Bulletin»:

«The number of college bulletins and adult-education come-ons that keep turning up in my mailbox convinces me that I must be on a special mailing list for dropouts (…) So far, however I am still an uneducated, unextended adult, and I have fallen into the habit of browsing through an imaginary, handsomely printed course bulletin that is more or less typical of them all:
(…)
Rapid Reading:
This course will increase reading speed a little each day until the end of the term, by which time the student will be required to read The Brothers Karamazov in fifteen minutes. The method is to scan the page and eliminate everything except pronouns from one’s field of vision. Soon the pronouns are eliminated. Gradually the student is encouraged to nap. A frog is dissected. Spring comes. People marry and die. Pinkerton does not return.»

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