The Wildebeest is no stranger to accomplishing Important Things. Just this morning, for example, he managed to drink half a cup of coffee and eat an apple while communicating with three people simultaneously on Facebook. About ten minutes ago he was able to cut a frozen pizza into more or less symmetrical pieces using his bare hands (and a steak knife). No mean feats, to be sure.
However, the rest of the day was filled with little errands and tasks of no particular importance, including:
- Working out
- Buying a frozen pizza
- Driving the Turk to the post office
- Closing his two-week-old Netflix account on the final day of the free trial (note to potential Netflix customers: they do not carry “Wildebeests Gone Wild”–very disappointing)
- Researching the terms of Blockbuster’s free trial
- Taking a nap
- etc.
While the satisfaction derived from completing every item on his list of things to do is in no way equal to the satisfaction of an Important Thing, like fending off a cheetah attack on the herd, or the sight of a freshly decimated swath of Serengeti after a particularly exciting stampede, it is still a nice feeling to have at the end of the day. The Wildebeest intends to fully indulge himself for the remaining four days of his vacation.
