Obviously that's not entirely true, otherwise I wouldn't be posting. And it's not true that I can't be productive - I spent five hours yesterday figuring out how to make a web client for LiveJournal. (I should use that to post this! But, no mood or music or anything.) And I built a bookshelf and cleaned up the apartment today, and I'm about to ( Read more... )

Today feels like a lazy day.

But I really need to get work done.

Time to make a to-do list and stick to it.

10:25 PM: I think to myself, "I should get to bed soon."

10:30 PM: I start preparing to go to bed.

10:33 PM: My supervisor sends me an email: "There's a problem with the website that needs to be fixed now."

1:00 AM: I finish working out the problem with the website ( Read more... )

Presenteeism

(prez.un.TEE.iz.um) n. The feeling that one must show up for work even if one is too sick, stressed, or distracted to be productive; the feeling that one needs to work extra hours even if one has no extra work to do.
-presentee n.

(Hat tip: 43 Folders)

I did not mean to give the impression that I had been fired; in fact, I still work for Johns Hopkins, but in a highly-reduced, long-distance capacity. I am voluntarily leaving my full-time position in order to go back to school ( Read more... )

I just finished cleaning out my desk.

In 32 minutes this won't be my office anymore.

As of when I'm typing this, I have exactly 70 hours of work left before I leave for school. 6 hours are left today; I have three more eight-hour days this week; and then I have 40 hours of work scattered across the following two and a half weeks. (I'm working 8/2, 8/4, 8/8, 8/10, and 8/11 ( Read more... )

(I think onomatopoetic interjections must form the majority of my post subjects these days. I'll have to change that. On the other hand, I'm very glad that my mood-theme's "sick" icon isn't one of the ones that actually vomits ( Read more... )

Go to bed, dammit ( Read more... )

I am tired, I ache, and I'm vaguely crabby. I'm desperately tempted to call in today.

On the other hand, I know that if I do, I'll get a kvetching-out from my supervisor, and I'll feel bad about not doing the work I need to do.

Oh well.