So here is the self impsed list of things to do at work yesterday.
6:30am Begin logging footage for video project
9:00am Watch past client video in preparation for meeting
10:00am Complete departmental timesheets
Noon: FInd stock footage for video project
1:00pm Lunch
1:30pm Take cab to client's office
2:00pm Meeting with client
3:00pm Continue logging footage for video project
5:00pm Watch poetry video for promo project
And here's what actually happened:
6:00am - 6:30am - Search for a place with current to log footage since we had a power outage on Sunday
6:30am - 7:00am Begin logging footage for video project
7:00am - Power goes off just as I am about to log the last shot on the first of 4 window burn dvds
7:15am - Begin relocation to my desk - at least I can type up the notes I have so far
7:30am - Run into panicked co-worker in the hall in an attempt to send a fax (that didn't work); in addition, I run into other co-workers who are attempting to resolve the power outage issues.
8:00am - Wait for computer to re-boot; Begin typing up notes
8:30am - Informed that power would be going out again in my area; save work
8:50am - Heck, might as well go to Starbucks
8:55am - listen to abysmally long story of colleague's weekend as he shamelessly tries to flirt with me
9:00am - jonesing for my caffeine fix;so encourage colleague to wrap up story; go to Starbucks - get caffeine and then go to CVS to purchase fantasy football magazine; they are out of stock.
9:05am - Return back to work; re-boot computer
9:10am - Send out email to remind department to turnin timesheets and paperwork from the previous week
9:15am - Realizing that I won't receive all the timesheets anytime soon, go set up to watch client video
9:30am - Watch and take notes on client video
10:00am - Start calling the same folk who never turn in their timesheets on time to remind them to turn them in; make pre-mature lunch plans with co-worker at noon
11:00am - Continue processing timesheets; get annoyed that as with every week I still don't have them all even though they are due on Friday
Noon - Continue checking timesheets and crosschecking them with paperwork; still annoyed that I don't have all of them yet.
12:30pm - Finally receive all timesheets - start doing weekly summaries
1:00pm - Still doing timesheets - anxiously devour a few handfuls of trail mix to keep from passing out
1:15pm - Make copies of all timesheets (phew the copier didn't jam this time); turn in timesheets
1:30pm - Take cab to client's office
2:00pm - Meeting with client
3:30pm - Realize that I have no chance of completing a lot of the items on the list above; so I warm up my lunch
4:00pm - Complete lunch; go to accounting to discuss billing issues; run into friend in hallway
4:15pm - Friend has one of her friends with her and asks to print something from my computer
4:30pm - Friend + 1 go to my desk and friend begins surfing the net for whatever she needed to print out. +1 begins an animated discussion on her cell phone
4:34pm - Go downstairs to log that last shot on the dvd from this morning
4:45pm - Go back to desk - friend +1 are still there; hmmm - try to re-send fax from earlier this morning
5:00pm- Fax finally successful - but friend +1 are still at desk; realize that the list is hopeless at this point and decide to chat with friend +1 for a few minutes in between returning emails and phone calls
5:30pm - Wish friend +1 would leave so I can have a minute of coherent thought; begin a futile attempt at trying to find office supplies; take the scenic route back to my desk in order to avoid annoyed co-worker in the hall
6:00pm - Friend +1 finally leave and I finish composing emails that require a little thought.
6:30pm - Wait fo train to Pentagon;
6:43pm - Train finally comes
6:50pm- Train arrives at Pentagon; run like mad woman to catch bus; bus pull off without me; drop a loud f-bomb at the thought of having to wait another 20 minutes for bus; apologize for f-bomb; only to realize that attendant made bus driver stop for a couple other people too; run like a banshee towards bus (in heels and a skirt)
6:51pm - Secretly wish I could punch bus driver for pulling off without me; calm down and try to enjoy the ipod tunes
7:15pm - Walk home
7:23pm - Fall asleep while watching Young and the Restless
8:15pm - Wake up to check the score of the Yankee/Detroit game; pleased that the Yanks are losing - calculate that they will be seven game back in the AL East; talk fantasy football with roomie
8:30pm - 11:00am - flip back and forth between baseball and football; play mindless video game; go to sleep
3:00am - Wake up to clip nails
3:30 - Begin typing this blog and preparing for another productive day
4:05am - Attempt to go back to sleep.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
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