wherein Liz is a bit swamped
Apr. 12th, 2021 07:11 pmThere are two problems with Mondays. The first is inherent and can't be fixed. The second is situational and is currently driving me up the wall.
1. The rental company offices are closed on Sundays, so on Monday morning we have to deal with not just whatever emails and voicemails came in Saturday night, but everything that happened on Sunday as well. So you start with a large backlog you have to clear before you can get to any new work.
2. I am currently working in the Collegetown office on Mondays, but still expected to be paying attention to my downtown email and related stuff, which means I am effectively trying to do two jobs simultaneously. This is A LOT OF WORK, and tends to result in either A) I never surface to breathe but manage to get almost everything done or B) I take some 15-minute breaks to catch my mental breath and consequently shove a bunch of work either onto Miss California (if I drop a Collegetown task) or Mr. Geniality (if I drop a downtown task).
Today I split the difference, by which I mean I did not complete one task Miss California had left for me from Saturday, and I pushed a couple email responses and a "go drop off a letter" thing onto Mr. Geniality, but I did otherwise Complete All The Things and had very little time to breathe.
...Additionally, I used two of my 15-minute breathing periods to do church Board of Trustees work, so I don't know how much of a break they actually were, but at least it was different work, so.
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Now I am going to finish dinner before calling Mom to coordinate our summer vacation schedules, after which I need to double-check my Not the IRS schedule for tomorrow and make a reminder to contact Goodyear because I have figured out what's been causing my car to make a weird scraping noise, and now I need to get my exhaust pipe fixed back into place. *headdesk*
As the quote goes, life isn't one damn thing after another. The damn things OVERLAP.
1. The rental company offices are closed on Sundays, so on Monday morning we have to deal with not just whatever emails and voicemails came in Saturday night, but everything that happened on Sunday as well. So you start with a large backlog you have to clear before you can get to any new work.
2. I am currently working in the Collegetown office on Mondays, but still expected to be paying attention to my downtown email and related stuff, which means I am effectively trying to do two jobs simultaneously. This is A LOT OF WORK, and tends to result in either A) I never surface to breathe but manage to get almost everything done or B) I take some 15-minute breaks to catch my mental breath and consequently shove a bunch of work either onto Miss California (if I drop a Collegetown task) or Mr. Geniality (if I drop a downtown task).
Today I split the difference, by which I mean I did not complete one task Miss California had left for me from Saturday, and I pushed a couple email responses and a "go drop off a letter" thing onto Mr. Geniality, but I did otherwise Complete All The Things and had very little time to breathe.
...Additionally, I used two of my 15-minute breathing periods to do church Board of Trustees work, so I don't know how much of a break they actually were, but at least it was different work, so.
...
Now I am going to finish dinner before calling Mom to coordinate our summer vacation schedules, after which I need to double-check my Not the IRS schedule for tomorrow and make a reminder to contact Goodyear because I have figured out what's been causing my car to make a weird scraping noise, and now I need to get my exhaust pipe fixed back into place. *headdesk*
As the quote goes, life isn't one damn thing after another. The damn things OVERLAP.