| Friday, January 18, 2008 |
| Life in the Fast Lane -- Sort of |
Horrors! Cope!
Saturday, January 19, 2008, by Rick Levine
This could be a day of domestic errands and heightened activity at home. You may be hard pressed to slow down, for there is so much to do and everything takes longer than anticipated. Instead of stressing about falling behind schedule, just find an enjoyable pace that you can sustain all day.
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It's been a bit challenging these past 2 weeks, and the peak isn't in sight. Clearly, I haven't kept to the 2-3 day limit between posts, but I'm trying.
I was essentially reprimanded (albeit in a nonconfrontational way) last week by my supervisor, and this week, I was dinged from 2 other people. That old saw about no good deed going unpunished has come to back to taunt me with a vengeance.
The workload is such that one of my coworkers and I aren't quite sure how we're going to handle matters. Already we're working much longer hours -- my coworker has continued to come in early but is leaving later, and I've been working later and have put aside a weekend day just to try to level things out; certainly, my months-long computer woes didn't help -- but we still feel like we're sinking fast.
My ex-boss remarked to me a few days ago that I'd worked long hours at the old job and was doing the same at the new job. Of course, there's a bit of a difference between the 2 jobs: at the old place, I couldn't leave till my work was done, regardless of the time of day, whereas here I have a time limit, but it's not do or die.
Part of my difficulty is also the fact that I can never get to the office early during the winter. All the other seasons, I'm in the office early, usually between 7-9am, but come winter, when the morning hours are pitch black, no matter when I wake, I simply can't get myself in gear and out the door at a decent time. I simply hate rising and leaving for work in the dark, although I did it for a long time, years ago. If that doesn't prove I'm a creature of the sun, I don't know what does.
My other duties, of course, have been squeezed into a much more compressed time frame, so, although the plan is not a new one, I'm now actually taking steps to slough away some of these extra things -- at least temporarily. The end of 2008 should mean the day job is all caught up --but that's not soon enough. In any case, until everything is all official, I won't specify what's going to be taken off my plate.
On a less personal front (it's not all about me me me?!), my wanderlust friend Climbergurl is off to the Peace Corps again. A few years ago, she was in Cameroon; this time, it's Malawi. I joked that she must be sure to say hi to Madonna and Guy (and maybe Paris Hilton) for me.
Climbergurl is highly intelligent but a bit of a free spirit as well, which can manifest in some startling naivete. In fact, she's a complex puzzle, sometimes exasperating but always fascinating, frank, and sincere. A great friend who's young at heart -- and who keeps us -- Socially Inept and I -- young at heart as well. If only we had her energy and determination as well.
On a lighter note, I actually went through a tiny portion of the stationery and stationery accessories I have and was shocked at how much I have. That is to say, I know I have quite a lot, but what I found exceeded my dim memory's recollection. Greed, thy name is T&B, etc!
So, I'm hoping that once I free myself up a little, I'll be able to actually do something with all the stationery things I've collected or been given. Once upon a time, I was quite a prolific snail mail correspondent; it's been eons since I've written more than perhaps a half dozen such letters a year. Truly, what a lowering realization.
I've also got a handy-dandy camera phone now, so I'm slowly learning how to upload and download. Maybe I'll actually be able to liven up my posts a little, the way so many people (like Fuff, Phosgene Kid, Eternally Curious, Nanuk, Seb, and others do). On the other hand, I'm nowhere, nohow as creative as these folks, so I might spare myself some humiliation. ;-) |
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