go slow
Monday I worked 8am to 6.30pm, Tuesday I did 8am to 5.30pm, yesterday I clocked up 8am to 8pm, and it turns out today I will be doing 8am to at least 6 if not later. I have an RDO to take at some point but I don't have time next week. I am salivating at the thought of the upcoming public holiday though!
Last night's meeting went... fine! Not in that the website was working... in fact, it developed a major search issue 5 minutes before hand... but they were so pleased to see something that they didn't seem at all disturbed that most of it wasn't working! The Councillor chairing kept the thing moving and I was home in time for House!
Though the following exchange made me a bit exasperated:
Me: *with new site up on screen* So this is the new web page...
Lady: But isn't that what we have now?
I've realised that often at these meetings people don't entirely care what you have or haven't done. They just want to talk about their pet issues and tell you what you should. So one guy just wanted to talk about how the quarterly newsletter that Open Spare produce is the most important thing that Council does. Stuff like that.
However, the new president of the Youth Council came and I mentioned that I meant to go to the last meeting and planned on going to the next (true). She said, "Oh, it's on tomorrow." Which is why I'm doing my fourth day of overtime in a row.
So I'm relaxing a little today. Of course I'm working, but I'm not going at the same hyperactive pace that I've kept up the past week.
Still lots to do, but yeah... I need to unwind.
Meanwhile, when I'm stressed I dream realistic related dreams. This means every morning I have to take half a minute to stop my dream cementing itself as a memory. So far this week:
-dreaming that I was trying to fix a problem with the page over the phone with BlueArc but I was going deaf and couldn't hear their instructions
-dreaming of taking an RDO and going swimming but forgetting to tell work
-various other dreams about the website or Internet not working
Last night's meeting went... fine! Not in that the website was working... in fact, it developed a major search issue 5 minutes before hand... but they were so pleased to see something that they didn't seem at all disturbed that most of it wasn't working! The Councillor chairing kept the thing moving and I was home in time for House!
Though the following exchange made me a bit exasperated:
Me: *with new site up on screen* So this is the new web page...
Lady: But isn't that what we have now?
I've realised that often at these meetings people don't entirely care what you have or haven't done. They just want to talk about their pet issues and tell you what you should. So one guy just wanted to talk about how the quarterly newsletter that Open Spare produce is the most important thing that Council does. Stuff like that.
However, the new president of the Youth Council came and I mentioned that I meant to go to the last meeting and planned on going to the next (true). She said, "Oh, it's on tomorrow." Which is why I'm doing my fourth day of overtime in a row.
So I'm relaxing a little today. Of course I'm working, but I'm not going at the same hyperactive pace that I've kept up the past week.
Still lots to do, but yeah... I need to unwind.
Meanwhile, when I'm stressed I dream realistic related dreams. This means every morning I have to take half a minute to stop my dream cementing itself as a memory. So far this week:
-dreaming that I was trying to fix a problem with the page over the phone with BlueArc but I was going deaf and couldn't hear their instructions
-dreaming of taking an RDO and going swimming but forgetting to tell work
-various other dreams about the website or Internet not working