eskatological volumes

7.16.2003

 
08:36

well i had a bit of surprise monday morning when i got into work. had a taken a few calls and cara asked me to come into her office about the era project. so i go in and she says MZ has more or less assigned her to work closer with me to insure this thing gets done. in management talk, that means they don't think i'm doing anything so now i have a watchdog. but cara knows i've not had time to do it, which leads to the surprise. she said now that MZ has come down that hard on it, she's taking me off the phones (for now) and my sole priority is to get era stuff done and out the door. so work hasn't been as bad the past few days; i feel bad knowing M and J are having to take like nearly 50 calls a day, but we had a new guy finally come in monday also, and he'll prolly be on the phones by next monday if not by the end of this week. we'll see i guess. i enjoy working on the era stuff lots more, but then again most anything would be more enjoyable that what i was doing previously. it's still a bit stressful as i feel i'm not very good at this kind of stuff...especially since i've never done it before. and it's not a slacking job either; it's more of a controlled stress since i can juggle things around more myself rather than just having to deal with whatever call comes into my phone. dunno how long this wil last though. nor do i know what will happen afterwards. and more puzzling is that i'm still kinda grouchy when i get home..i usually figured that was due to deal with users all day...maybe it just takes a while to get out of the system. haven't made the call to the eap deal yet...every week it's the same. want to call on monday, and as the week wears on, the less i feel like calling. *shrug*
um, sadly that's about all i have to mention. julie and i are trying to get things together for the dinner part on saturday..which unfortunately couldn't be moved to sunday to accomodate doug, but he's being a sporting chap about it and coming over to see me and julie on sunday.
....actually i take back what i said about 'sadly that's all i have to mention'; i'd much rather have hum-drum than something like the drama of last week. speaking of which, julie is doing better it seems. she took the last of her antibiotics...last night i think. it's really just the nausea/lack of appetite that keeps bugging her, which shouldn't have anything to do with the other problem.