The Aerie

Sigh

Back again.

Just weathered a couple of long weeks at work. Under the Morton's Salt Rule of "It never rains but it pours," my job went from idle to overloaded in a single day. I had an all-day class to teach last Thursday, and while I had done some work on it in advance (actually as it turns out I had done a bunch of work on it and forgotten how much), I still had work to do to populate eight hours of time with Powerpoint slides.

Ten days before my class, my boss received news (too complicated to go into) that caused her to provide me with not one, not two, but three projects, any one of which would have kept me busy right up til their deadlines... the day before my class.

Now, usually I'm a total last-minute Charley, and I would have been totally screwed. And to be honest, I thought this was the case. I worked my butt off to try to finish my other jobs early so that I'd have time to plan my class and finish my presentation, which meant that I actually hit the deadlines.

Fortunately when I finally did get around to working on my class, I discovered that I had somehow written a lot more than I had thought I had. I kept advancing through my Powerpoint slides, saying "Huh, this is good, who wrote this?" Fortunately I had enough to get through my class when it finally began, and needed merely to do some editing and rearranging and to write up a couple of forms for participants to use for class exercises. The class went off okay.

Once the class was done the weekend was upon me, and the home remodeling project beckoned. Because we are getting flooring installed, we have to move all our belongings out of the master bedroom and the boys' bedroom. In addition to the usual weekend activities, we've had to begin that process, to be completed this weekend.

It's not that I haven't had time to blog, but I've had a hard time overcoming tiredness to get myself motivated to blog. Instead I've been reading some books I bought at Uncle Hugo's. In addition to blogging, I now need to finish my application for the U of MN, and of course I need to work on one of my many books that I'm writing.

On the upside, my books on Amazon have garnered a positive review. Yay!

Fortunately things at work have calmed down a bit, and hopefully that will allow me to approach my evenings and weekends in something other than a state of blank-eyed exhaustion.

Another positive development, I've been mostly bicycling to and from work, so hopefully I will start to get in somewhat better shape... still not managing to get to the gym, though!

Posted by Albatross at May 18, 2006 2:35 PM | TrackBack