The cursed project may, in fact, be cursed, but it sure as heck doesn’t take two months of dedicated time to run. It has been just over a week and I’m nearly done with my tasks, and I have oodles of free time in which to pick up random incoming jobs. My boss and I have come to the conclusion that the last several people to laugh in the face of danger and fail miserably work on this project padded their time by at least a few weeks and were probably playing solitaire. It’s less stressful this way, although the first few days were wretched, and I think overall I prefer it.
That being said, I’m finding it very difficult to concentrate at work. This is due, I think, to three things:
- I am in the feeble clutches of a not-very-robust, but still irritating headache
- My caffeine supply is dangerously low
- I hate what I do to make money
At the same time, I could be using my unproductive work hours for personal non-work productivity, but I’ve come to the realization that I’m a slacker at heart. I am attempting to write an engaging article for the company newsletter about what the clueless customer service people need to know so I can do my job effectively, but I think that’s contributing to my first bullet point.
I’m amazed that I’ve managed to write this much.
In geeky news, I just ordered an ASUS eee PC 901 in Sweet Pea green. I was going to wait and order it as my “Yay, me!” for making my mini-goal weight. However, ASUS is currently offering a rebate which ends 3/8/09, and that changed my tactics a bit. While this snappy little netbook will arrive well before I reach my mini-goal, I won’t have custody of it until I see those numbers on the scale. By my calculations, that should be mid-May. Delayed gratification!
