Ever Feel Like a Cell Phone Battery?

So I managed to over-work myself into another cold… or something. I’m not sure what the hell this is, but my energy level is pretty much nil. I feel just like a cell phone battery, where you sit for a little while until you power up about three bars… then you make ONE phone call, and it’s all shot again until you can boot back up. *sigh*

But, I had an extremely productive weekend… okay, extremely productive Saturday. I was pretty much a vegetable on Sunday. But lemme back up a bit:

Since we (at work) have had absolutely no spare time to train the newbies on MY duties and therefore ease up a little bit of my load, I came up with the brilliant idea of each of us taking a different day off of one of these weeks, and all of us coming in for a concentrated day of uninterrupted training over the weekend.

So… during the last two weeks, I did my best to prepare for said training. Now, I did as much as I could during work, but the same interruptions and workload that holds up any potential training during the day equally hinders my ability to prepare for it. And, of course, since I’m one of those wonderful procrastinators that doesn’t really put any real extra time into anything until it’s absolutely crucial, I ended working through Friday until about 3 am Saturday morning. Mostly putting together a powerpoint presentation and a department operating manual.

Yes, that was 18 straight hours of work. Stupid, I know (especially since I tend to froget to eat when I'm concentrating that hard... and guess what my head absolutely LOVES)… but sometimes my level of obsession can be amazing.

But actual training day was perfect… aside from trying to operate on four hours of sleep, sinus pressure and a migraine peeking around the corner, of course. I was very pleasantly surprised. My pupils were paying attention and engaged and asking questions and interested and actually learning. At first we were a little concerned about trying to stuff so much into one day, but the day went by so fast we hardly realized it was gone.

And then I went home and died Sunday and Monday.

But that's not the end of the story.

I got back to work today and discovered that, since my boss decided to share our activities with other upper-level management, the power-point presentation that I threw together as a last minute luxury for the training is now making it’s rounds in other departments. Which, on the one hand, is flattering… cuz the kind of training we did IS kind of a good idea. I’ve always been of the opinion that if you have a solid grasp of the basic overview of the department and how it all fits together, you can do your own little portion of it that much better. So that’s how I presented it… department overview first, and then contracts, which is what I specifically need help with. Well, it's what I need help with most.

However, on the other hand, it’s a bit disconcerting having my last-minute presentation going around representing the support staff of this department… hell, representing ME. I mean, MY level of understanding of how things work around here is plenty sufficient for me to do my job, and for anybody else who needs to learn how to do my job. But go up a few levels, and my level of understanding of the department may seem just plain stupid.

Now, the little logical dood in my head is fairly sure my level of understanding of the department is not, in fact, stupid. I’m usually very confident in my job. But there’s no talking to that little doubting dood who lives back there, too. Li’l focker.

Amway, I may be headin home early soon. My battery is running out quicker and quicker as the day goes on. It was nice to get out for lunch, though. Even though Mom’s not working at the moment, she still comes and picks me up for lunch on Tuesday. Since she’s probly the one who gave me this cold (it’s acting much more like the one she just had recently than the one I first had a few months ago), she probly wasn’t in too much danger of contamination.

Hopefully, this won’t be my only contribution for March, but my free time isn’t exactly predictable these days. Which isn’t all bad, I suppose. I could be sitting home bored to tears, which seems to be IHOP Buddy's fate lately. But that's another story and she's workin on finding something to get her outta the house.

Oh, and we've finally got some gorgeous weather goin on... woo-hoo!