Dear Diary,

Today, I was very busy doing absolutely nothing. My schedule has been completely swamped with inaction and let me tell you, I've never been more exhausted. Just thinking about all the things I haven't done this week makes me feel like laying down. Really, I'm positively winded.

Where to begin? Well, I guess I got up bright and tardy on Monday morning/maybe noon-ish and devoted the whole day to not closing Guantanamo Bay. It feels like I've been doing that since January. Sheesh! I mean, there's just so much to not do with that particular campaign promise. I need an entire department to monitor the prisoners who aren't being relocated to other, proper facilities, I haven't even started to consult that incredibly dusty copy of the Geneva Convention to address the pretty huge pile of related grievances... and it is no less than a full-time job to not schedule talks with the Cuban government about potential transfer of land and sea rights.

I usually spend the better part of every Tuesday not repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell. That one's rather hard, given that I'd really just have to say that I want to repeal it (which I totally do) then I'd have to sign one, maybe two forms. I mean, I sign a lot of freaking forms every single day, but most of them are just for things like bulk orders of toilet paper or an early release for one of the interns when they've got the sniffles. It would be almost too easy to slip that pesky DODT form in with the shuffle. I'd probably never notice.

I don't even wanna get started on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Those days are reserved for not passing health care reform. Really, it's like plugging a cracked dam with my fingers. Nobody but me knows how hard it is to not do something that, like, 90% of all people want. It's on the news every single day and Congress just won't shut up about it. And the funny part is that the people who are against it just make things worse. Every single time they open their mouths, they prove that they just don't understand what Universal Health Care means so everybody else gets better educated and they end up wanting it even more. I don't know how much longer I can keep this up.

At least it's Saturday. Now all I have to do is avoid spending time with my family and not clean the bathroom in the Lincoln Bedroom. Tomorrow I'll probably spend a little time not pulling the troops out of Iraq, but nobody even talks about that one anymore so I don't really pay much attention to it.

Geez. It's November already. Who knew it was so exhausting to spend a year doing jack-all? When I was on the campaign trail I did so much all the time. I don't know how I had the energy. I mean, doing nothing is wearing me out, so how tired would I be if I actually took action?