This is a quiet week at work, especially since all of our adult leadership took leave. About half of my group is around and we are spending our time largely on housekeeping chores, e.g. cleaning up email, filing, seeking total world domination.
Or, at least, coming up with schemes to rearrange the order of the universe. One of my colleagues has proposed that every person on the planet should get their own private half hour, to take whenever they want. Nobody around them would know it was happening, but they'd get the extra time with the only condition being that they couldn't use it for work or for chores. I quite like the idea and figure I will get around to figuring out how to do it about when I figure out how to be in two places at once.
My real problem, alas, is that I spend way too much of my time doing the non-work and non-chore things, so I don't make it very deeply through my list of things to do. I have 3 major tasks to accomplish before the year is out and about all I did today regarding them was write a list on my whiteboard. I did get through a certain number of other less important things, however.
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.
Copyright 2007 Miriam H. Nadel