I don't want to be doing any of the things I should be doing, so I am pretty much not.

Same. I was supposed to have a 4pm meeting, so I basically stopped working then. This is basically my slow week -- had a lot of deadlines around the 1st, more to come, but this week I'm just bracing for everything.

I don't want to be doing any of the things I should be doing, so I am pretty much not.

I need to write my annual review by tomorrow. Have I started it? Nope! Have I gotten a lot of other things done instead? Yep!

I have an 8pm meeting tonight and a 7am meeting tomorrow, which means I need to be up before 5am. I guess I'm just not getting sleep this week.

I finished my editing and have nothing until my boss sends me articles tomorrow, so instead of taking a walk, I just watched 2 episodes of 90210 on Hulu. This makes up for working until midnight last night.

I have an 8pm meeting tonight and a 7am meeting tomorrow,

Yikes!

I am in trainings for the next 2 days and should really be plowing through papers on my desk lest there is something important buried. BUT instead I just spent an hour scrambling for our GD wellness program that everyone including me in our office had ignored.

Last year to get the decrease in insurance cost one had to fill out a wellness survey and have a biometric screening. This year you have to do both PLUS earn 10 more "points" to qualify. Points earned by meeting certain standards in the screening, watching short seminars and taking tests, or logging healthy activities. All have to be done by 11/30.

IN ADDITION, this year there is a penalty for anyone who uses tabacco or who does sign an affidavit saying they do not use tabacco. As HR coordinator, but not actual HR employee or professional, in this field office, printing out, understanding, explaining to others, and the tracking some of this falls to me.

Normal days I do zero HR stuff and do this put everything else on hold.

I now desperately want a root beer float.

Hot and gross today. Boss man kept making fun of me for getting soaked in the sprinklers. Between already sweating like a pig and being miserable, it was the only good thing about dragging hoses around all day.

Morbid humor warning:

Set-up: Coworker sprained her ankle and still had a long night to go for a concert at work (it was visibly swollen). Other coworker had a tank of glyphosate and informed her he was killing things. So she said, "oh good, spray me, please kill me" or something to that effect.

I bit my tongue because first urge was to heckle her with "really, JZ, a suicide joke?! Too soon, don't you think?"

I figured my inappropriate sense of humor might have potentially made her feel bad instead of the actual intent (pure heckling). She also miand these here are narcissuses," turning to another patch, "and here's daffodils.ght have laughed, but I didn't want to risk it. I thought it was f***ing hilarious and shared it with another coworker later because I don't have that much self control. We already know we're going to Hell and have promised save the other a seat if either of us gets there first.

If one of my co-workers could just have another of her freak accidents that somehow incapacitate her today (last week she apparently jammed her finger so hard she lost consciousness, I shit you not), I might actually be able to work on what I'm supposed to be working on and meet my goals by day's end.

Also, when I took a sanity preserving break to run some overdue DVDs by the library, a meth-tastic couple approached me with a sob story about how they're stranded with no money and could I please give them a ride to Lake City (about a 50 minute round trip in the middle of a workday).

I really wish they'd come up to me before I went in the library, when I was carrying Hannibal DVDs, so I could have said "your self-preservation instincts aren't that well developed, are they?"

Sounds like too many people qualified for the insurance decrease last year. Harumph.

the breakfast is always (untoasted) bagels, cream cheese, fruit and coffee.

That's the standard university breakfast meeting fare around here too.

Actually I think less than half of the workforce in my locale took the decrease last year. They hate giving people information, hate going to Drs.