Work is this sine wave of excitement. I have intense periods of all kinds of stuff to do, followed by moments where nothing happens.
Now, if you believed that, I got a bridge to sell you.
Truth is ever since I started in this university business, the work flow has changed dramatically.
In the first year, we had 2-3 intense rush periods – mainly at the beginning of semesters. Then it morphed into six periods of intense activities – adding the final exams period. For some reason someone decided that the summer – which used to be fairly dead – was going to be intensive course country. Of course, the 2-3 rush weeks turned into month long affairs, and then the midterms flared up, and then we took on this Africa project and bla bla bla…
Yeah.
Of course, This makes me react like every other sane human being would, I focus all day on nothing but work work work and then I avoid all external work like a bad cliché.
And if you believe that, I could rent you the moon for a very reasonable monthly fee. Ask me about it but make sure you use the promo code “GULLIBLE”.
I think I’ve done more external work, Facebook surfing, Twitter watching, Mafia War playing in the last three months than I ever did in the previous year. This creates an interesting vicious circle, where I’ll stay up later to “unwind” from the work day, but will inevitably end up doing some work (you gotta love the ole Blackberry). So the next day at work, when I start to lose my concentration I think to myself:
“Meh, I can take a 10 minute break since I worked until 10 pm yesterday”
Of course, 10 minutes turn into 25, and then when I get home at night I feel guilty about the long break I took at work, so that makes me stay up until 11 pm playing “catch-up”, and I always get to work 45 minutes earlier to kick start the day, but since I stayed up until 11 pm, I get sleepy, take a longer break. The next day I’m even more sleepy, so I pause more often and fell more guilt so I stay up until midnight… You see where this is going, right?
Luckily, I see it too.
I might flat-line soon too if I keep going at life this way. It’s really time to make some major changes in the way I manage my time.
Hey Bro, voici une réponse en français, une chanson des Vulgaire Machins:
J’fais d’la poudre
Pour travailler plus
Pour faire plus d’argent
Pour faire plus de poudre.
Un cercle vicieux!
.-= THE BROTHER´s last blog ..Quoi, en le regardant je pensais qu’il était déjà mort! =-.
My job is feast or famine. I can go weeks with absolutely nothing to do, then suddenly I’m slammed. And you don’t know when it’s going to happen. Yeah, I do some surfing, etc in the downtime, but when it’s on, it’s ON and there is no playing. The way I look at it, it balances itself out between the busy and the slow.
.-= bubblewench´s last blog ..Muchos Gracias =-.
@THE BROTHER: Si au moins j’faisais d’la poudre, j’srais probablement plus mince…
@BubbleWench: Balance. That would be nice.
Does this mean you don’t wanna play with me no more? <~~~~poor grammar on purpose to up the pitiful factor
.-= Sheila (Charm School Reject)´s last blog ..La la la la la la TONIGHT =-.
I have days were I don’t get to eat or even sit down to catch on charting and etc for more than 5 minutes. Then there are days were I have everything done by 5am and am bored for the rest of the day. I have stopped feeling guilty. My busy days are more numerous than my slow days, so I tend to enjoy the slowness and not feel bad about it at all. Balance would be a great thing, but I think its illegal in the workplace
.-= Becky´s last blog ..The First Week =-.
First of all? I’m totally turned on by the switch between French and English in your comments.
Second? To do list. Tasks listed in the order of importance. Give yourself a 15 minute break mid-morning and 15 minute break mid-afternoon. With lunch in the middle? You should be more productive.
I think.
.-= Coal Miner’s Granddaughter´s last blog ..Patriotic Spam =-.
@SheilaCSR: I wanna play with you no less.
@Becky: The scary part is that you deal with lives, I only deal with ones and zeroes. Well, when someone annoys me, I guess I could deal with life too.
@CMG: I’m blushing in both languages.
I’m all about the GTD. It just seems I have a lot more T then G and D these days. 
i’m just balls to the wall busy all the time. ya know, if i had balls to put against a wall.
.-= hello haha narf´s last blog ..Love When It Happens =-.
i love my job (been here a little over a year now) and the reason i love it is bc i’m not micro-managed like i was at my last firm.
the bossman knows i’m on the internet from 9-5, but he also knows that i will get whatever needs to be done on time without any worry.
with that said, he’s on vacation for the next two weeks and only gave me billing assignments to work on.
so i figure i’ll be busy next friday, and until then, i’m on facebook playing mafia wars, blogging, and annoying people with email forwards.
@Hello Haha Narf: I’m sure you can find balls to put to the wall ever so often.
@Melissa: Well you know, as long as the work is done. So, what are you waiting to join my mafia?