Category Archives: work

Oct 12

Crabbiness is not fun

for anyone.   I had a really crabby day yesterday.   I blame stress and hormones, because I am a woman, afterall, and what else could it possibly be?

I have a LOT on my plate right now.  For the most part, I can put most of it on the back burner.   But every now and then, the stressful bits come off the back burner and play around in my head.    One thing leads to another.   As more minute things happen, the crappiness (and the crabbiness) stockpiles.

Rather than allow this to happen, I have a plan, or two.   

When things seem overly annoying, I can:

  • Put on my sneakers and take a walk (or a run)
  • Grab my sketchbook and find something to draw.   It’s good to have a project that involves concentration, so I can do one of my art class projects.
  • Grab a glass of wine.   Of course, this doesn’t work out well mid-morning.
  • Stop internalizing things.    It’s not necessary to spew out things to people as they annoy you, either, unless it’s really tactful.. especially at work.   But this doesn’t stop me from pulling out a piece of paper or opening notepad and writing something to make me feel like I’ve got it off my chest, either.   
  • Try to think of things that are not bad, although sometimes this is difficult mid-crisis   :)
Jul 30

Lunching and Learning

Normally, I’m setting up equipment for conferences, but today I gave my own (mini, mind you).   It was a “Lunch & Learn” about the Intranet redesign I just finished.   Eight people showed up, so it was nice to have a small group.   I liked the tall chair to sit down in and the podium to hide behind.  :)    The only bad part was when Vista decided it had auto-applied some updates and it was gonna reboot.   

I don’t know.   Mid Lunch & Learn, not a good thing, but the reboot was at least brief.  

Mar 31

Determination

is having the cork sink half down the neck of your only bottle of wine, and finding a way to get it out anyway.  :)

I’m so glad my day is over.

Believe it or not, the worst part of my day involved photocopying paperwork.   Important paperwork.   Paperwork that I didn’t want (but now IS) out of order.

Also, I did not want the photo machine to keep jamming, but it did.

THEN, it would get part way through printing off a job and say, “Oh, wait a minute.  I have freaked out and now you are going to have to start from page 54.  Too bad you have not numbered your pages, eh?”

Several words crossed my mind.

Ian said, “Back away from the machine, take a deep breath..” and several other things to retaliate against the machine.

Photocopying machines typically are the bane of my existence, now that I think about it.   If they’re not jamming, they are beeping.

So much for the government being “paperless”.

Wine and chinese food.    Life is ok again.