I'm sorry, I'll try that again.
I have been LiveHermiting rather badly the last three months or more. My apologies. It was in an effort to be better at time management, since when I read LJ I feel a compulsion to follow ALL of the posts from EVERYONE, to read ALL the details and to post comments to EVERY post of importance to make sure people know I'm reading them. Because, y'know, if I don't read or respond to something, people will discover that I'm secretly a worthless person.
But although not reading LJ did save me from just hyper-focusing in on everyone else's lives, it also isolated me from what's going on in people's day-to-days, which kinda sucks. Plus, you cannot SAVE time. It gets spent one way or another, and I spent mine, well... worrying about what I should be doing instead of DOING things. Kind of a losing bet either way, really.
So I'm going to try being back. I will NOT guarantee that I'm up to date on everything, though. If you want to make sure I know about something, conveying it to me in a non-markup-language, direct-connected medium is preferable. In other words, I read my mail and answer the phone more reliably.
Time management: I've realized that I do better with a manager overseeing me, or at LEAST someone else AROUND when I do stuff. They don't have to HELP, just BE there and hang out while I'm actually DOING shit. Somehow that seems to really help.
Support group: I am very good at generating morale, and at filling in holes where Something Needs Doing. I am not great at or distinctly deficient at buttonholing other people, initiating conversations, and long-term planning and self-management. Unfortunately, that's increasingly what needs doing at our group. *sigh* Anyone want to be the boss of me?