seventhe | i am looking for 2013; have you seen it?

Well. I am definitely still alive by some definition of the word although you wouldn't really know it if you looked at my to-do list; today's is actually three-dimensional because it has grown to multiple pages and notebooks plus the fun add-on iPhone Take Home Version we don't talk about. It is hard to even know what to talk about because it's definitely one of those "may I please just lie on the floor now thank you sir" types of days/weeks/months. Years.

Just when I thought I was finally getting control of the workload around here one of our teammates passed away very suddenly and unexpectedly. It turns out a lot of the work that he did was the kind of low-level fundamental support work that keeps us running out back, and as such almost all of his responsibilities have fallen directly onto my desk. Luckily for me I at least know enough to know that they aren't my job and shouldn't be; but to properly delegate I have to know how to do them and keep them going in the interim until other people get given access to database X or trained on how to use program Y or even arrange to make time to do Task Z. There was a week where I was staying until 7:30pm every night trying to get a handle on it all - all the new stuff, I mean, which of course sets me behind in my own collection of operations-necessary responsibilities.

There are a couple solutions to this ongoing problem that aren't "grind my teeth into shreds and/or die" but to get to those solutions I need to a) survive this period of bullshitsunami; b) prove that they will work and then and only then will I c) get to do the work to implement them. Stay in school, kids. Where by school I mean not operations management.

I continue to miss the fun casual chatting about video games and fandom, even though at the moment I don't have much to offer other than swear words followed by long awkward silences where I might have actually fallen asleep.