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It's all a bit up and down at the moment.
Overall, work is insane - even more so than usual. My sort of opposite number has been seconded to the Learning and Development Team, to develop e-learning websites for us. This is great for him, as it's an area he was really keen to get into. Unfortunately that leaves me as the only person on the team who is familiar with his job. So we've had a series of temps in, and I monitor everything that both roles are responsible for, and delegate like blazes.
So let me tell you about the temps. There was the very nice but fairly ineffectual lady who (we have just discovered) did a load of data entry wrong so six weeks worth has to be done again. Or how about the girl didn't show up on Monday? Even though she had an interview with us for the position.
Actually the last couple of days have gone pretty well. Which only serves to make me afraid. Phrases like, "the calm before the storm" and "It's quiet. Too quiet" keep running through my brain. I feel very aware that I have too many things on the go all at once to keep track of them properly. A bit like when you're buildong a house of cards, and you know it's too high - even though it's not falling down yet, you know that all it will take is for someone across the room to close the door too hard and it's all over, red rover.
But what the hell. Everyone knows it's a danger and I'm doing my best. I will be mightily relieved when we've got someone in role, though!
On an entirely different note, Mr and Mrs Huggy-Buggy are coming to visit this weekend. Hurrah! It will be great to see them again. And the lovely TP (I hope I'm referring to the same person I think everyone else is referring to that way!) is heading my way very soon also.
And I have holidays coming up! Oh glorious holidays! I will spend 5 days in Bergen in Norway, where I will catch up with one of my lovely boys from Wellington and probably see fjords! (I mean that absolutely literally, so get your filthy mind out of the gutter!) Then I will pick up a different Wellington friend, Jenny, and visit my cousin in Spain for the long weekend. Then back at work for a couple of days (boy I hope they're properly staffed by then!) and then Jenny and I are doing a week-long tour of Turkey.
I be so busy! Mainlining dark chocolate before 9am is an effective (if maybe not so terribly healthy) way of coping with it all.
Dark chocolate is the way forward.
Overall, work is insane - even more so than usual. My sort of opposite number has been seconded to the Learning and Development Team, to develop e-learning websites for us. This is great for him, as it's an area he was really keen to get into. Unfortunately that leaves me as the only person on the team who is familiar with his job. So we've had a series of temps in, and I monitor everything that both roles are responsible for, and delegate like blazes.
So let me tell you about the temps. There was the very nice but fairly ineffectual lady who (we have just discovered) did a load of data entry wrong so six weeks worth has to be done again. Or how about the girl didn't show up on Monday? Even though she had an interview with us for the position.
Actually the last couple of days have gone pretty well. Which only serves to make me afraid. Phrases like, "the calm before the storm" and "It's quiet. Too quiet" keep running through my brain. I feel very aware that I have too many things on the go all at once to keep track of them properly. A bit like when you're buildong a house of cards, and you know it's too high - even though it's not falling down yet, you know that all it will take is for someone across the room to close the door too hard and it's all over, red rover.
But what the hell. Everyone knows it's a danger and I'm doing my best. I will be mightily relieved when we've got someone in role, though!
On an entirely different note, Mr and Mrs Huggy-Buggy are coming to visit this weekend. Hurrah! It will be great to see them again. And the lovely TP (I hope I'm referring to the same person I think everyone else is referring to that way!) is heading my way very soon also.
And I have holidays coming up! Oh glorious holidays! I will spend 5 days in Bergen in Norway, where I will catch up with one of my lovely boys from Wellington and probably see fjords! (I mean that absolutely literally, so get your filthy mind out of the gutter!) Then I will pick up a different Wellington friend, Jenny, and visit my cousin in Spain for the long weekend. Then back at work for a couple of days (boy I hope they're properly staffed by then!) and then Jenny and I are doing a week-long tour of Turkey.
I be so busy! Mainlining dark chocolate before 9am is an effective (if maybe not so terribly healthy) way of coping with it all.
Dark chocolate is the way forward.
