2:00 PM 5/2/2006
I’m struggling to keep everything together right now. It’s fun until things actually do fall apart - like being weightless during freefall. Work seems a lot less important when the pressure is on at school, but there’s one major hurdle at work I’ve been forgetting about. My boss is going to Australia for at least two weeks, and we’ve gotten rid of practically everybody else. So just like I’m the team leader in my PM class, I could step up and lead here. Only problem is: there’s nobody to lead. It’s another case where I’m the worker. And I’m not even all that great of a worker. Am I supposed to have any help in that interval? Meanwhile, I’m being asked more and more to account for micro-slices of my time. Maybe that’s a good skill to have, but the real trend in my life is toward multitasking. Visualize a three-ring circus. I have to keep circulating from one area to another, and it’s not so easy to say what I was working on a couple hours ago, or if I was even working at all - sometimes I have to back off and consider the big picture, or even just veg out for a few minutes. In that vein, I’m hoping to direct that energy into this page. More often than not, the thoughts I have are not coherent. Just turning my attention to the sheet of paper or the weblog window can scare away the feeling that I know what I’m actually thinking. When there is pressure to arrive early and stay late everywhere I go, something has to give. Time has to be juggled.
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Tue, 02 May 2006 19:00:00 GMT
11:43 PM 5/1/2006
Mondays are going to be a bear for a while now. MGMT404 is going to be a lot of fun and a lot of trouble. This is a chance to replay the awful time I had in Business 115. We broke into groups, and had to select an Information Technology Project. Based on a combination of age and confidence, I wound up as the team leader. I usually like to stand back. I’m not involved with a lot of teamwork at my job, so it’s relatively unexplored territory for me. There’s so much to say, but I’m about ready for bed.
I’m riding the Metro, and reading a book about the Metro on the trains and buses. I’m reading about a massive public works project on my way to a Project Manaegment class. Discuss.
Christina & I had lunch today. She got me some groceries at discount, then we schemed about lunch. Standing in front of the sushi case at Whole Foods, I was considering my options, and she called me ‘Indecisive’. The nerve! We put down the sushi and went to Adega. I was craving ADega the sandwich shop with the wine store built right in, and they have veggie options. She loved it. The manager at Adega saw Christina in her Whole Foods vest, and got excited. He gave us a discount.
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Mon, 01 May 2006 16:43:00 GMT
8:35 AM 5/1/2006
It’s May again. There are supposed to be Immigrant’s Rights Boycots today. So far nothing seems out of the ordinary. My South Texas Correspondent has accused me of not knowing any illegal immigrants. She might be right. But if I were illegal, I wouldn’t want to advertise it, so the number might be fairly high. How many people assume that at 34 years old I have a college diploma? Probably all of them. On the other hand, I make it a point not to know that many people.
Christina has another training session at Whole Foods in Silver Spring, so we’re planning on having lunch. Today I’m the only one in Operations, so I have to make sure we don’t spend as much time out to lunch as the last time. She thought they would be starting earlier today, and be done earlier, so that gives us a few more choices.
School has been acting strangely again. Three of my quiz grades in BIS315 mysteriously disappeared. Now on the final grade they show up as zeros, giving me a ‘B’ for the class. It’s absurd! I took all three online quizzes while they were available, and got excellent scores. They were so easy - it was like a free gift. Naturally I took them because I needed insurance against the final, which might trip me up. Of course, I got nearly a perfect score on the final. He didn’t make it as difficult as I expected. When you finish the online quiz, the system auto-grades it. You get to see your answers against the correct answers right away. Unfortunately, there’s no way for my browser to provide any forensic evidence.
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Mon, 01 May 2006 13:35:00 GMT
