five days in a leaky office

The last time I had a job where I spent five days in a row in the same office was in 1999. With my recent change in role I'm back in that situation again. Even back in '99 I was doing multiple roles: working on my dissertation, tutoring at the university, and doing clinical placement work. Not a whole lot has changed. Like the Hong Kong in China “One Country, Two Systems", I've moved to a One Office, Two Jobs arrangement. But hopefully it'll give me some additional sanity.

It sure messes with the rhythm of your week though. Since Wednesday I've been feeling like it must be Friday, not used to spending so much time padding the same corridors. I've also re-arranged how I spend my time at that office, with the job that used to occupy Fridays being moved to Thursdays. I did this for various perfectly sensible reasons, but boy, did Thursday feel like Friday! (Much more so than today did. Go figure.) However, if this week is anything to go by then I'm going to find myself feeling much more “sorted” with my new reduced role—down to two jobs (one enlarged) from the old three. I think it's reasonable to say having juggled multiple roles in a range of places, I've become about as efficient as I can in doing that, and have got pretty good at it. For the last year though, I've come to strongly believe that no matter how efficient you get when juggling multiple roles, you simply can never be as effective in that situation. So watch out world, cause I'm getting focus!

Focusing will be an important part of the mechanism of my gadgetry delight that is wending its way to me, even as we speak. Unfortunately, I've discovered Amazon were good enough to upgrade my shipping from first class Royal Mail to shipping with Royal Mail's courier company. Either way, it would be delivered overnight—providing tomorrow was a working day. Unfortunately, the couriers don't deliver on the weekend though, so with the Bank Holiday on Monday I now know I'll be waiting till Tuesday. D'oh. Why didn't I order on Wednesday? (I am so not good at waiting. Please never tell me about a surprise until literally seconds before it arrives!) So hopefully it will rain all weekend, so I won't feel so hard done by. And no. It's not a camera. Or a computer.

If I have to wait, so do you.   : )