Go-Getter

Here we have a girl by the name of Katherine. Normally she's a little bit lazy. As a matter of fact, this story is beginning at eleven o'clock in the morning, with her still in bed.

But Katherine, once she wakes up, feels inspired. She is inspired to go out and make her fortune today.

She is so inspired, so vigorous and dynamic, in fact, that as soon as she has this thought, she gets out of bed and she writes a to-do list.

And at the top of the to-do list, after some thought, she writes a key.

"!! = Urgent!!!"

Truly inspired.

Do something interesting!!

Make some friends!!

Get to know your family better!!

Everything has two exclamation marks.

Clean your room!!

She looks around her room. It's already spotless. Oh.

She thinks. Only four things to do today?

Hmm.

Maybe she should just have one really tough thing to do today. She could handle it. She feels dynamic today.

Without really thinking about what she's doing, she scribbles everything out, and writes

Get a girlfriend!!!!

It's very urgent.

Katherine had always almost thought of herself as straight. She was never sure, really. But now she looks at her paper, and she looks around her room as if to try to find who wrote that.

She finds a mirror. She looks herself in the eyes.

...she high-fives the mirror. It's not a wall mirror. It almost tips over.

"Yes!"

"I will DO that, me!"

She leaves her room still in her pajamas. She does a U-turn back into her room, gets dressed, and goes out again.

Katherine is a ditz.

"Mom!"

"Yes, sweetie?"

"I feel like I need to do something important today!"

"That's good! What is it?"

"That's classified! I'll have to head out to do it, mom."

"Oh, really?"

Katherine's enthusiasm is catching.

"It sounds very important! Could I do anything to help?"

"Not really, mom, but can you tell me if I look nice? Be honest, this is important!"

"You look like you haven't showered. Your hair's a mess."

"Oh, right! I'll do that before I go, then!"

And she rushes off, gets undressed again, and showers.

She sings in the shower. She sings a very exuberant, vigorous song that she makes up as she goes.

Then she finishes, gets dressed again, and rushes back out.

"Rate me out of ten!"

"Ten out of ten, baby!"

"Perfect! I've got my cell phone! When do you want me back?"