Saturday, February 05, 2005

So busy, I don't have time to think...

Every heard that phrase? Seems that's the mode I'm in right now.
I have noticed that I am not thinking, anyway.
Work was just hopping this week. We have so many new clients I am struggling to remember them all for the report.
We have internal growth issues. Like the famous "growing pains" or yore... bones growing faster than muscles and ligaments... yah, I remember. And I remember screaming in the middle of the night, too.
At work, we're supposed to focus on revenue production. Fill jobs and bill. Sure, sounds easy enough, but without some proceedures and efficiencies more than three or four jobs at a time and you lose your mind.
We bought this new computer system last year "to make us more efficient" Too bad it was handled poorly. Our company had the wrong resources thrown at the job and wanted to do things on the cheap. Their company oversold the system's simplicity, didn't insist that they were the experts and we'd do things their way and - though they won't admit this - has a few guys working tech support who are not, shall we say, People Oriented. Yeah, I capitalized those on purpose.
Anyway... so I've been playing software tester, corporate trainer, director of operations, lead recruiter, staff psychologist, and overweight and tired sales person.
Last night I actually found myself thinking the following thoughts...
"I already said that. I'll just stop saying anything - it's too much trouble to not be heard." Then, in the next thought, I realized (Thank God I got something for my 10,000 dollar graduate education) that I (ME) (MYSELF) was the one with the problem... I was the one too tired to.... to what....? So tired that I really didn't want to have to say anything twice because the process was a daunting one.
So tired I just wanted to turn off my brain.
Thank Goodness for Jason Bourne.
Anyway, for those completely burned out on movies, overly cynical, navel gazing, myopic movie critics out there who said the second one was not as good as the first... I just want to know...? WHAT MOVIE WERE YOU WATCHING? The one where the "hero" and the "heroine" survive treachery and big guns, fast car chases, incredible camera work and perfectly timed music to live to ENTERTAIN us another day? That movie... or where you hoping that The Bourne Supremacy would do more than just transport you for +/- 2 hours?
Anyway... Anyway, it helps when you don't remember the reviews exactly... for instance, I got confused and remembered that someone had told me that the sex scenes in the second one were unnesseccary and gratuitous (aren't those the same word spelled two different ways?). Which kept me looking for he next girl he'd fall for.... Pam Landy is not it, of course. Still, I liked it a lot.Timing is everything, I guess.

I leave for DC in two hours. I had better get packed, showered and fed. I wish I had a laptop so I could work on the plane... but pencil and paper will do.
Hopefully, Madhu is ready for me. I am not letting her do her usual "let's just rest" thing. I have much work to do here and if I am spending time in DC instead of at my desk, you better believe I am going to be doing something only DC has to offer.
I sound like I'm off to slay dragons.
Wonder if President Fuckwit secretly has scales and firey breath....

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