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This article originally appeared on 10.25.16

Everyone gets antsy about their jobs sometimes.

Maybe you notice you’re less motivated than usual. Maybe you acknowledge that you’re no longer going the extra mile, and you’re not quite sure why. Maybe professionalism is a term you’ve long since forgotten.

For many of us, the struggle can be so, so real. That’s why Willie Muse wrote these all-too-relatable comics for College Humor, illustrated by Karina Farek.

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These six funny comics perfectly illustrate what a typical first day at your job looks like versus the 101st day:

1. Who doesn’t look at at least one viral video a day?

2. You suddenly find the time to fit in a breakfast sandwich.

3. You go from wanting your boss’s approval to hating his or her guts.

4. All the details that were once so important become nuisances.

5. Your (lack of) motivation can take you from hero to zero — quick!

6. And you most certainly DO NOT want to end up like this.

Let’s be real: These comics are funny, but they also aren’t ideal.

In a perfect world, we’d all have jobs that still look and feel like Day 1 on Day 101. And one of the only ways to get there is to intentionally strive for a life that’s full of work-life balance. We really do have the power to not let things play out like this.

What can we do?

At a most basic level, we can make sure we’re getting enough sleep, eating well, and doing at least a little exercise. We also shouldn’t underestimate the benefits of detaching from computer screens and smartphones every once in a while. Plus, we can also minimize our stress levels by not multitasking and instead concentrating on one task at time.

The most overlooked advice for maintaining a healthy work-life balance is to actually take time off.

Disconnect from your daily work routine. Make a conscious effort to recharge.

Perhaps if we dedicate more time to enjoying life outside of work, there’s more of a chance that we’ll be on Day 1 for months, feeling grateful for our jobs rather than impatiently waiting for the clock to strike 5. Let’s get to it!

As Super Bowl LVI, scheduled to be played February 13, inches nearer, the rise of COVID infections nationwide could endanger the whole event — which is extra bad news for Dr. Dre, who’s billed to play the heavily anticipated halftime show with his buddies Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige, and Snoop Dogg. According to TMZ, Dre stands to lose “millions” of dollars if the NFL pulls the plug on the event due to COVID concerns.

Unfortunately, that’s owed to an insurance provision that excludes outbreaks of sickness from policies. The Communicable Disease Exclusion — which dates back to the SARS outbreaks in the early 2000s — exempts insurance from paying out in the event of a cancelation resulting from a similar outbreak of a virus or bacteria. While it looks like the Super Bowl will be played as planned, there is an outside chance that with new variants of COVID circulating, things could go south. For now, the NFL is considering options for alternative venues in the works should the state of California or the city of LA decide to reinstitute lockdowns for safety.

Considering that just a year ago, Dre was hospitalized for a brain aneurysm, the fact that he has a chance to perform at all is miraculous by itself, but I’m sure that he won’t appreciate losing any more money in the wake of his recent contentious divorce.

Last February, a video of country singer Morgan Wallen surfaced which showed him using a racial slur with his friends. The video spurred major controversy and led to him being reprimanded by fellow country artists and banned from a few awards ceremonies. But despite the backlash from him using a racial slur, fans still listened to his sophomore album Dangerous: The Double Album so much that it was the most popular LP of 2021 by far when it comes to streaming.

MRC Data, a company which tracks and compiles music sales in the US, just released their year-end report for 2021. It shows that Wallen’s Dangerous, which was released in early January last year, finished 2021 with 3.226 million equivalent album units. Most of the album’s success was driven by streaming numbers, and seeing the LP boasted 30 songs, there were a lot of tracks available for fans to stream. Dangerous also spent 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, which was more than any other album from 2021.

Following behind Dangerous was Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour, which earned 2.856 million in 2021. Drake’s Certified Lover Boy came in third place, earning 1.970 million unites. Adele was behind Drake with 1.936 million units for her album 30, and Pop Smoke’s posthumous LP Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon came in at No. 5 with 1.533 million units.

While Dangerous was the most popular album of 2021, Dua Lipa had this year’s most-streamed track. Her song “Levitating,” which was actually released in 2020, earned 804.71 million streams this year alone, making it the most popular song of 2021.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Here’s a terrifying crime statistic: Over half of murder victims know their killer. That horrible fact apparently holds true when it comes to famous entertainers as well; consider that Nipsey Hussle was apparently on speaking terms with the man who allegedly shot him to death in front of this own store in 2019. It also appears to be true of the more recently deceased Young Dolph, who was killed in Memphis in front of a bakery by two men who opened fire from the parking lot.

Now that police have revealed a suspect in the murder, eagle-eyed Young Dolph fans have spotted him in multiple photos of the late rapper, often standing just beside him and in some cases wearing a chain reading “PRE” — the acronym for Dolph’s label, Paper Route Empire — around his waist. The suspect, 23-year-old Justin Johnson, is apparently also a rapper going by the name Straight Dropp; however, he was not listed as a Paper Route artist at the time of Dolph’s death.

The Memphis Police Department issued a warrant for Johnson’s arrest yesterday, while the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has offered a $2,500 reward for information leading to his capture. A total reward of $15,000 has been offered by the MPD, TBI, and US Marshals, who have issued a second warrant for violation of federal supervised release due to a weapons charge. Johnson is wanted for First Degree Murder, Criminal Attempt-First Degree Murder, and Theft of Property $10,000-$60,000.

Jennifer Lawrence’s last movie before taking a hiatus from acting was Dark Phoenix, the least successful of all the X-Men movies (New Mutants made less money, but at least it didn’t cost an estimated $200 million). But now she’s back, and her first post-hiatus film, Don’t Look Up, is breaking viewing records on Netflix. “In its second week on the streaming platform, the disaster movie has recorded 152,290,000 hours streamed between December 27 and January 2,” according to Variety, which puts it “right at the top of its leaderboard of globally viewed English-language films.”

Earlier this week, Lawrence visited The Late Show to discuss Don’t Look Up and also play “The Colbert Questionert,” a game of 15 questions “that when asked, reveal not only to me and the audience, but to the person being asked the questions who they truly are,” as host Stephen Colbert explained. One of the questions was: you get one song to listen to for the rest of your life, what is it? “Um… um… I can’t answer that! How do you answer that?” Lawrence said before settling on “Holding On to You” by Miranda Lambert.

The non-single from Lambert’s fifth album, Platinum, was co-written by Jessi Alexander (who also penned “The Climb” for Miley Cyrus) and Ashley Monroe, one-third of country supergroup Pistol Annies. It should not be confused with the Twenty One Pilots song of the same name, and it’s definitely not “Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing ta F’ Wit.”

You can watch The Late Show clip above.

As the nation grapples with the one year anniversary of the January 6 insurrection that saw the U.S. Capitol building breached by a throng of Donald Trump supporters in an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, Tara Reid wants everyone to remember that she had a tweet go viral that day. The American Pie and Sharknado actress retweeted herself on Thursday morning, reminding the world that shortly after 3 PM EST on January 6, 2021, she announced to the world that she “saw the news” and tweeted an emoji that over 13,000 people liked. A true historical moment if there ever was one.

To Reid’s credit, she did acknowledge later in the year that maybe it wasn’t her best tweet. In May 2021, she responded to the original post with the laughing face emoji and joked that it “aged well.”

Of course, it’s not like the one-year anniversary of January 6 is deprived of levity. To “honor” the historic breaching of the Capitol building, The Daily Show erected mock monuments that completely lambasted the “patriots” of the “Freedomsurrection” like Rudy Giuliani, Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Ted Cruz. Each of their actions during the attempted coup were much more ridiculous than Reid’s tweet, and in her defense, she wasn’t directly involved in an all-out insurrection. More importantly, Reid also acknowledges that attempting to decertify an election is a bad thing, which puts her light years ahead of Boebert, Cruz, and Greene in true patriotism.

(Via Tara Reid on Twitter)

Ozark‘s supersized, two-part final season may just get the job done. That job, of course, would be to make Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) rue the day that he ever got into money laundering. Sure, he’s had regrets before now because it’s awfully inconvenient to pluck up one’s family (including his cheating wife, Wendy, who’s also dealt with her share of sh*t from Marty) and haul butt down to the actual Ozarks. And he’s been roughed up plenty, as well, but now, Marty’s truly in a fine mess: because this new trailer suggests that Ruth Langmore (the magnificent Julia Garner) will make her move.

Ruth has, of course, been maneuvering in the background for some time as Marty’s right-hand gal who cleans up after him and rarely asks for much. She’s been learning (despite insisting, “I don’t know sh*t about f*ck”) and positioning herself for a power play, and this trailer indicates that she’s going to find some money-laundering assistance from Marty’s son. That’s pretty crafty, as are more ominous words from Navarro and the hint that (as in horror movies) the call’s coming from inside of the house, all while Marty’s supposedly working off the last shreds of his obligations in Mexico.

Here’s a tiny little logline to tide us over:

Marty and Wendy are rid of Helen and climb to the top of Navarro’s empire. They find another opportunity to get out of the Ozarks but some past sins won’t stay buried and the most dangerous threats come from blood.

This final season will contain 14 episodes, which will launch in two seven-part halves. So, two final seasons? That’s not the official stance, but I’m running with it.

Ozark will return on January 21, 2022.

Last month, Grimes officially kicked off her new era of music following her 2020 album Miss_Anthropocene with the wistful track “Player Of Games.” Though she hasn’t confirmed the song’s subject matter, it definitely seemed like her version of a breakup track after splitting things off with her ex (and father of her child) Elon Musk. The song arrived as the first preview of her upcoming album Book 1. While she has yet to share a release date for the LP, the singer has asked her fans advice on an important aspect of the album.

On Twitter, the singer shared two possible images she wants to use for her Book 1 album artwork. The first image shows her as half-android with her clothes ripped in a way that shows off her then-pregnant belly. The second is a more close-up image that puts her against a starry backdrop with open books and snake-like creatures at her back. “I can’t tell which of these is my album cover,” she wrote. “all thots welcome.”

Ahead of sharing her possible Book 1 album artwork, Grimes announced to fans that she aims to pivot away from music as her “day job” after releasing Book 1, although she clarified that her goal isn’t to quite music forever. “Celebrity culture is suffocating a f,” she wrote on Twitter. “I’m not quitting music, but def changing my main day job after BOOK 1. Music industry feels old and tired, reliant on archaic systems.”

Check out Grimes’ Book 1 cover art options above.

In their budding existence, Black Country, New Road have never taken the easy way out. The 7-piece chaos punk collective’s songs are often sprawling numbers with dynamic movements and “Concorde” is no different. The single came out last November and now the can’t miss video has arrived.

A twisted sci-fi tale of a reverse alien abduction, features an alien ant (a nod to the band’s upcoming album, Ants From Up There) being taken into custody by an earthling ops team. The six and a half minute clip feels like a campy extraterrestrial short film and the music really complements both the tension in the story, and the feeling of joy as the events transpire towards the finish line.

Watch the “Concorde” video above and check out Black Country, New Road’s North America Tour dates below.

02/19/2022 — Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
02/22/2022 — Brooklyn, NY @ Sultan Room, Turk’s Inn
02/23/2022 — Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere
02/25/2022 — Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
02/26/2022 — Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz
02/28/2022 — Detroit, MI @ Third Man Records
03/01/2022 — Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
03/03/2022 — Seattle, WA @ Barboza
03/03/2022 — Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall
03/05/2022 — Arcata, CA @ The Miniplex, Richard’s Goat Tavern
03/06/2022 — San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
03/08/2022 — Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon
03/09/2022 — Los Angeles, CA @ Regent Theater

Ants From Up There is out on 02/04/2022 via Ninja Tune. pre-order it here.

It was probably only a matter of time before Nas jumped on the NFT trend. He’s invested heavily in blockchain before and has often been on the cutting edge when it comes to his investments in tech. Today, he announced his partnership with blockchain platform Royal to offer 50 percent of the streaming rights from two of his songs as NFTs. According to a press release, a limited number of tokens will be offered on January 11, granting holders a portion of the publishing rights to “Ultra Black” and “Rare” from King’s Disease I and II, respectively.

Of the partnership, Nas said, “I am always looking for new and unique ways to connect with the people. So I am excited to partner with Royal on their new endeavor in order for the world to connect with my music in a new way.” Meanwhile, Royal’s co-founder and CEO Justin “3LAU” Blau said, “Having Nas be the first artist to sell royalty rights through Royal is an incredible affirmation of our mission. It’s proof that artists across genres feel strongly about democratizing ownership of their music, and that they want to be connected to their listeners on a deeper level.”

Royal’s investors also include 3LAU’s fellow electronic artists The Chainsmokers, Disclosure, and Kygo, while hip-hop artists involved include Joyner Lucas, Logic, and Stefflon Don.