Hangin up the Hat

So my brain has officially hung up it's hat for the day. And I still have an hour and 45 minutes left before quittin time. *sigh*

Hectic day. Had to power through an advertisement (4 pages of steps for those suckers) at the last minute cuz the PM (Project Manager) didn't know if he had authorization to proceed with the project until this morning, and it advertises on Monday, and the ad had to get to the papers by the end of today. That was this morning. It actually wasn't that difficult... I've done enough advertisements now that the process is pretty streamlined. It's just all the friggin interruptions that got me frustrated. And I normally don't mind interruptions at all... just not when I'm on a deadline, here.

Of course, I strongly suspect PMS is contributing to my overall irritability. Most things I normally roll with are seriously getting on my nerves this week.

Amway, add onto that our temp, who's a very nice girl, but hasn't really been focusing on her work. Granted, she's having a complicated pregnancy and has a lot on her mind, but she's not helping me much, here. Everything I give her, she's working by rote... not really paying attention to what she's doing, so I end up catching a lot of obvious errors. Now, I'm not sure how much of that can be attributed to being a million miles away upstairs, how much to simple inexperience, and how much to a crappy teacher (me), but either way, I'd get much more accomplished if I just did the work myself in the first place. But we have to keep her busy.

So that has contribued to my irritability, as well.

Then, this afternoon I was treated to a self-taught crash course on hooking up the laptop and projector, and using a jump drive. Our old Office Manager was the one that worked with all that equipment. None of us had done it before, the Office Whisperer was swamped getting the presentation ready, the Receptionist is completely lost when it comes to this stuff, so it was up to me to figure it out.

I had to wheedle a half hour out of the folks who had a meeting in that conference room right up to the time of the presentation. The set-up actually went fairly well, but the jump drive and I had to come to terms a time or two. It wasn't saving the correct file. It faked me out into believing I'd successfully saved over another file of the same name (last year's presentation). I didn't learn the error of it's ways until I finally managed to download the file onto the laptop, brought it up, toggled the display... and my boss (yes, my boss was giving this presentation) immediately pointed out the obvious fact that the date is 2 years old. This was while we were surrounded by the rest of the big-wigs he was presenting to, cuz the powerpoint file was so damned big that it took 5 years to upload then download, and I was late getting started, and the meeting was already 10 minutes underway.

So I ran with the jump drive back to my desk (on the other side of the building), resaved the file (another 5 years), ran back to the conference room (boss had already started the presentation using his little powerpoint print-out), downloaded to the laptop again (another 5 years) and finally slunk out of the room.

On the upside, my brain has successfully handled everything thrown at it today. On the downside, my brain has endured waaaaaaayyyy too much pressure today. I get the impression I'd never hack it in the corporate world. lol

Amway, time to go pack up all that equipment again. BUT! I now only have an hour left before I can go home. :)