Ever have one of those days where no matter how hard you try, no matter what your intentions are in the end you just feel like you’re stuck in the mud spinning your wheels and getting nowhere?  That has been my day…

Lets see, first there was the class I’ve been in for the past three weeks….  I’ve been working to finish this class as quickly as I can, and things have been winding down for me to be down today.  Never mind that I’ve been ready to be down with it about a week ago…  It was all going well, until workstations started refusing to load and things stopped working grinding that process to a halt and delaying it for three hours.  Thankfully I could get other things done while this was happening, but it was just one more thing on my plate today.

Then there is my next big project, which I honestly didn’t expect would be starting until sometime next week…  I found it yesterday, that one person has already been working on it.  I wandering over to check on the progress, and found myself neck deep in the work effort pulling network cable, and completely pulled off track for 2 hours.

Next stop, my bosses office to find out what was happening with a letter I needed him to edit and forward along.  Instead of dealing with the letter, I got stuck in the middle of a 90 minute long discussion about capturing personnel work stats, and the best ways to present such information.  Its a discussion I absolutely loathe largely because I believe that my boss (and to a lesser extent his boss) are trying to capture and track more information than they have a need for and more importantly more information than they ever actually use. 

I run off to lunch, and on my way back realize that I got so wrapped up in all the other junk that I completely forgot that I wanted to be down in the quad to get some pictures two hours ago.  Instead I had to settle for my alternate location after I ate.

After that it was back down to the classroom, to FINALLY finish the last bit of equipment breakdown for the class I was in, and then over to my boss’s office to discuss the letter I tried to talk to him earlier about…  Of course he was nowhere to be found despite agreeing earlier to meet with me at 2…

I just feel like I’ve been running everywhere, and just haven’t been able to get anything done today…

Then, to top it all off, I’ve got to babysit tonight.  Never mind that it’s bowling night, and I would much rather be doing that…

Repeat after me:

I love my job

I love my job

I love my job