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Wow. This week has gone by fast. Probably because I was tied up at the hospital all day Monday. At least it was a day well spent.
One of the things I don't like about posting daily is that I don't know if I can be interesting on a daily basis. For one thing, I fully admit that I'm writing for an audience, not writing for myself. I've never been very good about keeping a private journal, I really don't have a need to. I have this "soundtrack" that runs in my head 24/7 in which I hash out all the things that bother me, etc., somewhat like what some people use a journal. This is also what enables me to be a prolific writer when the need arises (as it will in November). Since I'm very comfortable with designing a running dialog in the back of my mind, when it comes down to write, I merely spend a great deal of time thinking about the task, and then when I sit down to write, it just pours out the ends of my fingertips. Yes, I do realize what a blessing that is.
My list of projects keep growing, mostly due to my own active imagination and creativity. I guess I need to tell myself to stop before I start feeling overloaded again. However, we've entered what I consider "Melinda's zone" - i.e., the period of time between October and mid-May or so where I am extremely energetic and productive. This will last until it starts to get very warm in the spring, at which time I will shut down and do a slug impression until October again. Heh, at least I know my limitations.
Work is work, and yesterday was hell. I walked in the door with 4 issues on my plate, plus the 16 issues left behind by my co-worker. At 4 4 p.m., I hadn't even *looked* at any of his 16 issues, and had 18 in my own box. *le sigh* We had training for most of the team yesterday so even though my boss had said I could get off the phones to concentrate on tickets, it just wasn't possible. Hopefully, today and tomorrow I will be able to get out of the queue and worry about this backlog.
Of course, today we have our team meeting, and I also have a training call scheduled for this afternoon. So that's automatically 2 hours out of my day spoken for without having looked at a single issue. Luckily, I did a preliminary scan of the issues between 4-6 last night, and some of them aren't too bad and should be able to be dealt with fairly quickly.
The weekend is rapidly approaching and I still have no real plans. What I'd like to do is hide in my room all weekend and work on computer stuff. Unfortunately, that just doesn't seem to happen a lot. Someone always interrupts me etc. That's the one thing I do truly miss about living alone. I didn't have those pesky interruptions because when I want to concentrate, I just turn the ringers off all my phones and pretend to be a hermit.
Cie la vie.
Ciao for now.
One of the things I don't like about posting daily is that I don't know if I can be interesting on a daily basis. For one thing, I fully admit that I'm writing for an audience, not writing for myself. I've never been very good about keeping a private journal, I really don't have a need to. I have this "soundtrack" that runs in my head 24/7 in which I hash out all the things that bother me, etc., somewhat like what some people use a journal. This is also what enables me to be a prolific writer when the need arises (as it will in November). Since I'm very comfortable with designing a running dialog in the back of my mind, when it comes down to write, I merely spend a great deal of time thinking about the task, and then when I sit down to write, it just pours out the ends of my fingertips. Yes, I do realize what a blessing that is.
My list of projects keep growing, mostly due to my own active imagination and creativity. I guess I need to tell myself to stop before I start feeling overloaded again. However, we've entered what I consider "Melinda's zone" - i.e., the period of time between October and mid-May or so where I am extremely energetic and productive. This will last until it starts to get very warm in the spring, at which time I will shut down and do a slug impression until October again. Heh, at least I know my limitations.
Work is work, and yesterday was hell. I walked in the door with 4 issues on my plate, plus the 16 issues left behind by my co-worker. At 4 4 p.m., I hadn't even *looked* at any of his 16 issues, and had 18 in my own box. *le sigh* We had training for most of the team yesterday so even though my boss had said I could get off the phones to concentrate on tickets, it just wasn't possible. Hopefully, today and tomorrow I will be able to get out of the queue and worry about this backlog.
Of course, today we have our team meeting, and I also have a training call scheduled for this afternoon. So that's automatically 2 hours out of my day spoken for without having looked at a single issue. Luckily, I did a preliminary scan of the issues between 4-6 last night, and some of them aren't too bad and should be able to be dealt with fairly quickly.
The weekend is rapidly approaching and I still have no real plans. What I'd like to do is hide in my room all weekend and work on computer stuff. Unfortunately, that just doesn't seem to happen a lot. Someone always interrupts me etc. That's the one thing I do truly miss about living alone. I didn't have those pesky interruptions because when I want to concentrate, I just turn the ringers off all my phones and pretend to be a hermit.
Cie la vie.
Ciao for now.
