Some days take less, but most days take more, some slip through your fingers and onto the floor

[debitha]

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.

Comments

[holding-pattern.livejournal.com]

Heh, I like your slinky icon. I have someone flisted somewhere who uses that as the tagline for her journal :).

Ahah temps. Yes, you're referring to the right TP, who flies out very soon!

Holiday sounds lovely. Dark chocolate, similarly so.

[debitha.livejournal.com]

I love the slinky icon. I feel like I have found the motto for my life.

Some temps are great. Hell, I was a great temp! It's just... the others. The one we've got now seems to be pretty good, but she can only stick around for a couple of weeks.

Now I just need to find some time in which to actually see Miss TP.

[sassafrassle.livejournal.com]

Mm dark chocolate - so delicious AND good for your blood pressure:)

If only all temps could be as efficient and erudite as me. Hmm, maybe I should move over to the UK and be your temp!!

Give the Huggy-Buggys a cuddle for me please and tell them how insanely jealous I am hearing about their trip:)

[debitha.livejournal.com]

Come temp for me! We have at least 6 months work which you can have RIGHT NOW! You can stay at my house. My work problems and yours could be solved in one fell swoop!

I am totally abusing exclamation marks!!!!!!!

Maybe that is why I crave the chocolate. Blood pressure goes up, body demands dark chocolate. Went straight for the red wine at the bbq I went to on Sunday as well. (Because it is unusual for me to go straight for the booze. Yes.)

Is there a Huggy-Buggy email list? I think I am not on it. I do not get to hear about their trip. :o( Well, until Sunday. I will be sure to give them your cuddles.

[sassafrassle.livejournal.com]

Ooh that does tempt me! And the fact I have a Br passport means that you wouldn't need to worry about all that annoying immigration milarkey;p And I'd escape from Kiwi winter and could come back here in time for kiwi summer:) Plan, Stan! Right, I'm off to pack my bags;p

I don't crave chocolate - I only eat it because I feel sorry for the poor wee stuff, sitting there all alone waiting for someone to help it fulfil its destiny;p

Yep, Huggy Buggy list - give 'em hell that you're not on it;p Actually, I think the list is probably comprised of the people who went to their farewell brunch and therefore wrote down their e-mail addys.

[debitha.livejournal.com]

Gwon, gwon, gwon, gwon, ye will, ye will, ye will!

Mind you, I think we had the British summer back in April, so apart from being a bit warmer, I don't think our weather's much better than yours right now. I place my trust in August.

I know they have my email address - they've been using it to fail to tell me when they're arriving. (Sunday, mid-late afternoon). Details, people!

[zephfi.livejournal.com]

ah, the joys of workmates - temps or otherwise! heh, the admin team at my work have had a bad run with turnover atm. one guy they hired in a full-time role left within 2 days, another was 2 months. i think they've been asked not to test them etc anymore, because it's just not worth it when they sod off so quickly!

mm.. chocolate. i think dark choc is TOTALLY a breakfast type of chocolate. actually, it's a hard working choc in that it's ideal for ALLL situations.

[debitha.livejournal.com]

Someone was telling me about a guy who showed up for his first day at a job, at the end of which he informed them that he hadn't actually quit his other job after all, he'd just taken the day off so he could show up to this second job that he actually wasn't taking. Some people have veeeery strange ideas.

Dark chocolate - anytime, anywhere. Oh god, now you've set me off, I'm going for the desk drawer!