{"id":2741,"date":"2009-10-29T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T05:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2009-10-29T12:21:20","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T17:21:20","slug":"productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/musings\/productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I:<\/p>\n

Woke up to a phone call from my dad at 10 a.m. <\/p>\n

Jumped in the shower and got out of the apartment and on the road by 10:40.<\/p>\n

Answered the text of a co-worker calling in sick.<\/p>\n

Met the family in Somerville, who had driven from Hardin County to hand off a chunk of change I just<\/i> found out I needed desperately in order to close on the house.<\/p>\n

Drove back to Memphis.<\/p>\n

Went to Kinko’s (FedExOffice, I suppose it’s really called) to copy the check, front and back, enlarged.<\/p>\n

Went to bank to deposit check and get confirmation of deposit in both receipt form (check!) and the form of a letter from the branch manager saying that said deposit had indeed been made, which the branch manager said she could not do, despite pleas from my lender. <\/p>\n

Went back to Kinko’s to print out bank statement showing pending deposit. Made copy of deposit receipt. Faxed hurriedly to lender. <\/p>\n

Swung by Burger King and ate hurried shame food.<\/p>\n

Answered the text of another<\/i> co-worker calling in sick.<\/p>\n

Went to the office.<\/p>\n

Met. In meetings. <\/p>\n

Made reporter’s fixes to a graphic in the Nov. 1 True Crime installment. <\/p>\n

Threw together half a post for The Memphis Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Laid out the business section. <\/p>\n

Got an e-mail from another sick co-worker saying she’d be out for a while.<\/p>\n

Nearly lost it. Neeeeeearly lost it. Hot tears at my desk. Got that sinking feeling. Not because of any one thing. People get sick, it happens. It was just … everything. Everything concentrated into one moment when it seems like too much for one person. Too much for any<\/i> amount of people to have<\/i> to deal with.<\/p>\n

Sucked it up and tried to be a big girl and get shit done anyway. <\/p>\n

Reassigned duties to the people left standing. <\/p>\n

Downloaded Money&Markets and tweaked and adjusted all type to fit style. <\/p>\n

Laid out most of A section, except for Viewpoint pages.<\/p>\n

Got a call from loan officer, telling me the loan had been cleared to close<\/i> Friday. Felt weight lift. All bones in body immediately started to ache from a lack of tension. Exhaustion set in. <\/p>\n

Drank a cup of coffee. Black. <\/p>\n

Designed A1 when Grizzlies opener photo finally came in. <\/p>\n

Made next week’s department schedule. Realized my trying to take a few days off to move is really going to clash with my needing to design the next installment of True Crime. Winced. <\/p>\n

Set up remote-desktop access so I can work from home if need be. Winced. <\/p>\n

Laid out Sunday Homefinder.<\/p>\n

Listened to co-workers discuss HR’s latest round of benefits enrollment seminars and got that panicky feeling about having to pick next year’s medical coverage, since I did such a horrible job of picking it for 2009.<\/p>\n

Filled out edit lists through Sunday.<\/p>\n

Watched the clock tick past midnight as I waited for the all-clear to go home. <\/p>\n

In fact, I’m still sitting here. Yes, I am blogging from work. I am done with work. I technically was supposed to get off half an hour ago. But I’m here. I’m just waiting for the first edition to get in so I can typeset my second-edition pages. I’m waiting for papers. Always hurrying up to wait. <\/p>\n

I want to go home and have a glass of wine. There is a bottle waiting on me in my fridge, given to me by my friend and co-worker Mike<\/a>, who just got back from a trip out to Washington wine country, where his son works. I want to sit and just breathe a little bit so these tense coils can loosen their grip around my insides. I need to think. I need to mentally prepare myself for what is about to happen to me, for how my life is going to change when I take on the responsibility for a house — a property with lot lines and shingles and a fireplace and floorboards and windows and …<\/p>\n

There’s the all-clear. I am going home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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