Personal Assistant

Here’s today’s food for thought at A Fancy Word for Simple:

Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I’ve got big plans, so break time is over.
—Brian Andres, Storypeople

I wonder–especially on Mondays–what it might be like to have a personal assistant. Someone whose job it would be do to all the things I don’t like about my life . . . What tasks would you assign to your personal assistant?

• Grading papers (but I’d be happy to look at the papers of kids who need extra help when the PA is done)
• Routine paperwork
• Paying bills
• Scheduling appointments (nearly impossible with an elementary school teacher’s schedule—which is why I do a lot of doctor/dentist appointments during the summer)
• Planning dinner
• Loading and unloading the dishwasher

I’m sure there are others but these come most immediately to mind.