What Alice does to avoid staring at excel spreadsheets for hours and hours:

1. Read boring articles about Johnny Depp and his steam-powered yacht lolling off the coast of his private island.

2. Anxiously await being yelled at for some rich client or even richer artist's phone number or dog's name.

3. Fantasize about being on Johnny Depp's aformentioned yacht.

4. Anxiously anticipate looking for a bathing suit - the only shopping I despise - for forthcoming birthday cottage weekend extravaganza 2009.

5. Antipcate that most of swimming at aformentioned cottage fest will be midnight skinny dipping rendering leaving early to shop unnecessary.