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a brief chronology
Jul. 21st, 2004 11:38 pmam
6:50: wake up, oops
7:15: eating bagel and coffee, sylvia expresses very little interest in breakfast and i don't push it.
7:30: the commute begins
7:55: arrive at work
8:00: working, another relatively low stress bossless day
pm
12:15: decide i don't feel like going to all the effort of going upstairs to eat my lunch and study. pop the froz dinner in the microwave, break out some crackers and a fresh browser session for some recreational net time.
1:00: feel like i've slacked enough, especially as one of my ideas for eating at my desk was to more or less remain productive while munching. this never works with me and i kind of feel like i'd like to take a lunch break after my lunch. i decide that i really do need to leave my desk at lunchtime, even if it does mean i end up studying.
1:15: well in the swing of things, i know i'll have work left for the next day, but a manageable amount. my 2 team members ask me from time to time if i need help, but i assure them all is well.
4:00: coworker P notes that there are a lot of entries from one of the carriers in the table and asks if i'm sure i'm ok. i respond that many of them are essentially the same case and i know what i'm doing with it, so all will be well.
4:15: i take another look at the table and discover that within the last half hr, the carrier had doubled the number of entries in the table and i start to feel a bit queasy about the workload. i ask coworker D if she could help out in the morning and send a note to coworker P who has already left by this point that yes, i really could use some help after all.
4:45: i have cleared up a good portion of the first batch of work and composed the assorted emails to my boss summarizing, but hopefully not whining about the situation and other odd events which occured during the day.
4:55: leave work - note the sheer bohemian abandonment of leaving work 5 min early.
5:00: in parking lot, receive call from jeff who has been co-opted to driving his boss to his hotel which will make him late, so i offer to pick us both up dinner.
5:20: i leave cary after going to atm and chick-fil-a.
5:45: arrive home
5:55: jeff gets home, i distribute food to jeff and sylvia and we all have a quick, but tasty meal.
6:20: i leave for tax class
6:26: arrive at tax class (thank heaven for the occasional short commute)
8:05: jeff calls me during class and sylvia said hello to me on the phone! my heart is squishing somewhere around my ankles at this point, but all is well.
8:50:? jeff calls again and says that he and sylvia did not get out to the store and takes me up on an offer to buy sylvia a swimsuit after class. (please note that jeff will be taking care of sylvia fri evening and an awful lot this weekend, so i owe him big time)
9:40: leave class after talking with coworkers and realize that i have left my wallet at home and will need to pick it up before going out to wallyworld
9:44: home again, bring in backpack, put it down, go upstairs wave at jeff without sylvia seeing me as he is trying to get her back to sleep, pick up backpack, lock door, realize something is wrong with this, unlock door, pick backpack back down, pick up purse, relock door and head back out.
10:05:? wallyworld, find adorable swimsuit with butterflies all over it, bonus shirt/short outfit with a dragonfly, really cheap notebooks and chicken tenders[1]
10:40: arrive back home, change out of the work clothes i put on 14hrs ago.
dither about getting a battery powered watch[2] after all, but decide against it.
11:00: sit at computer and begin obsessively chronicling in my lj.
11:25: finish obsessively chronicling in my lj.
[1] sylvia likes and will eat chicken tenders, but she will eat many things at this point. the important thing here is that rajah, who hasn't eaten much in days was eating some of the chik-fil-a strips that sylvia had thrown on the floor! mass excitement, that's the other reason jeff called was to ask me to get tenders as well as a swimsuit if possible.
[2] there will be a post at some point about my quest for a self-winding, perpetual calendar watch, for less than $100, which can be worn by a woman even if it was originally designed as a men's watch.
6:50: wake up, oops
7:15: eating bagel and coffee, sylvia expresses very little interest in breakfast and i don't push it.
7:30: the commute begins
7:55: arrive at work
8:00: working, another relatively low stress bossless day
pm
12:15: decide i don't feel like going to all the effort of going upstairs to eat my lunch and study. pop the froz dinner in the microwave, break out some crackers and a fresh browser session for some recreational net time.
1:00: feel like i've slacked enough, especially as one of my ideas for eating at my desk was to more or less remain productive while munching. this never works with me and i kind of feel like i'd like to take a lunch break after my lunch. i decide that i really do need to leave my desk at lunchtime, even if it does mean i end up studying.
1:15: well in the swing of things, i know i'll have work left for the next day, but a manageable amount. my 2 team members ask me from time to time if i need help, but i assure them all is well.
4:00: coworker P notes that there are a lot of entries from one of the carriers in the table and asks if i'm sure i'm ok. i respond that many of them are essentially the same case and i know what i'm doing with it, so all will be well.
4:15: i take another look at the table and discover that within the last half hr, the carrier had doubled the number of entries in the table and i start to feel a bit queasy about the workload. i ask coworker D if she could help out in the morning and send a note to coworker P who has already left by this point that yes, i really could use some help after all.
4:45: i have cleared up a good portion of the first batch of work and composed the assorted emails to my boss summarizing, but hopefully not whining about the situation and other odd events which occured during the day.
4:55: leave work - note the sheer bohemian abandonment of leaving work 5 min early.
5:00: in parking lot, receive call from jeff who has been co-opted to driving his boss to his hotel which will make him late, so i offer to pick us both up dinner.
5:20: i leave cary after going to atm and chick-fil-a.
5:45: arrive home
5:55: jeff gets home, i distribute food to jeff and sylvia and we all have a quick, but tasty meal.
6:20: i leave for tax class
6:26: arrive at tax class (thank heaven for the occasional short commute)
8:05: jeff calls me during class and sylvia said hello to me on the phone! my heart is squishing somewhere around my ankles at this point, but all is well.
8:50:? jeff calls again and says that he and sylvia did not get out to the store and takes me up on an offer to buy sylvia a swimsuit after class. (please note that jeff will be taking care of sylvia fri evening and an awful lot this weekend, so i owe him big time)
9:40: leave class after talking with coworkers and realize that i have left my wallet at home and will need to pick it up before going out to wallyworld
9:44: home again, bring in backpack, put it down, go upstairs wave at jeff without sylvia seeing me as he is trying to get her back to sleep, pick up backpack, lock door, realize something is wrong with this, unlock door, pick backpack back down, pick up purse, relock door and head back out.
10:05:? wallyworld, find adorable swimsuit with butterflies all over it, bonus shirt/short outfit with a dragonfly, really cheap notebooks and chicken tenders[1]
10:40: arrive back home, change out of the work clothes i put on 14hrs ago.
dither about getting a battery powered watch[2] after all, but decide against it.
11:00: sit at computer and begin obsessively chronicling in my lj.
11:25: finish obsessively chronicling in my lj.
[1] sylvia likes and will eat chicken tenders, but she will eat many things at this point. the important thing here is that rajah, who hasn't eaten much in days was eating some of the chik-fil-a strips that sylvia had thrown on the floor! mass excitement, that's the other reason jeff called was to ask me to get tenders as well as a swimsuit if possible.
[2] there will be a post at some point about my quest for a self-winding, perpetual calendar watch, for less than $100, which can be worn by a woman even if it was originally designed as a men's watch.
