The weeks are speeding up
Originally published at Champagne and Socks. You can comment here or there.
It’s nearly Thursday already. I have no idea where the week went. And Thursday this week I am in the field all day. And it might be raining. And I’m getting a kick in the pants on the public transport thing by having to take the train home tomorrow as it’s easier for my colleague to pick me up past the train station tomorrow morning since we’re heading further south for the day. (Actually I’m looking forward to getting a good chunk of Passage read on the way home.) But see that means it’s almost Friday, already!
Taking off Monday was SUCH a good idea! It’s given me a bit of respite and, with the puppy’s help, I’ve been able to get up earlier this week, get to work earlier, work like a machine and then work a bit late, and make up some time I owed. I really think the random day off is a great idea and I’m going to see how I can go about doing that a bit more often. My workload at the day job is pretty full on now that I have all this coordination and admin to also do. And there seems to be a lot of work coming in at the moment. And lots of pressing deadlines. It’s making for a tired me by the time I get home.
I have though decided how I’m going to fly to World Fantasy Con. A couple of people suggested a travel agent to help me with this but seriously, it was almost easier to do it myself, especially when “doing it myself” meant my mum doing a bunch of the research. Qantas are clearly offering incentives for travel agents but you know, Qantas, that’s not actually going to make me book to fly with you, it’s more likely going to make me ditch my agent due to feeling bullied into a choice I don’t actually want to make. Qantas was the only option she was interested in pursuing and went with “they are cheapest” and “you have to book by the 21st, hurry hurry.” Yeah. In my day job, as soon as someone applies pressure to make me hurry on a decision, I have learned to slow completely down and read everything very carefully and look for the thing they are hoping I’ll miss. So when the pressure was on to pay for Qantas tickets, I stopped and thought long and hard and realised that I hate flying Qantas so much that actually, I would happily pay $200-300 more so as not to (and I think that’s actually the difference). I’ve flown before on the cheapest option, because it’s the cheapest option, and more often than not I’ve been cursing myself midflight for being so cheap. So, I’m not flying Qantas. And instead I don’t have to fly across the country, I can fly to Hong Kong and break up the flights into more equal flying times so I don’t have to do a really really long 20 hour haul. So, we’ll see how that goes.