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selenayNote to self: it's Wednesday, dammit, keep remembering that.
Note to self 2: sleep is a good thing, try it some day.
Apparently we are going to be fudging paperwork in some way to get my new hours started on Monday. I'm horribly confused about how we're doing this and have visions of getting called into HR at some stage for disciplinary meetings about absenteeism.
My boss will be coming to our office tomorrow to discuss it with us. I'm really not comfortable with faking my time-sheets to get this through without involving HR. If that's what is required, I'm tempted to tell him that I'll wait to start my new hours until after HR has done their bit and got the system set up properly for me.
Particularly if HR doesn't know that we're going to be faking time-sheets and someone tries to do the addition work on what my time-sheet is billing the projects that I'm on.
Much as I want my new hours to start, I'm wary about the trouble that I could be storing up for myself. I mean, what happens if I get sick and we're suddenly trying to figure out how this impacts me time and HR didn't know that I'd already changed my hours? Argh, so many potential pitfalls!
I'm also going to need to really quizz the boss about how to enter time for the medical appointments that I have coming up over the next two weeks. I've got a vampire visit next week, a GI visit the week after and if he confirms that I'm flaring then there will probably be a number of GI visits in the next few weeks while we fiddle with meds and get me stabilised.
And that only makes it more likely that there could be some sick time, which will eventually get HR to notice me and question my time submissions. Can we all just say, cluster-fuck in the making here?
Also, apparently I cannot type or proof-read my documents. Every change request that I've sent in this week has been initially rejected because I make tiny typos. Yesterday I had two periods in a file name. Today I have typed in incorrect file extensions. I'm thoroughly annoyed wih myself.
Next week there will be a five day break between sporting events. My evenings will be oddly empty. Maybe I'll actually do some reading or something. I have got quite the reading list of stuff that I need to finish by the end of the month, after all. I really need to get further with GRRM and there are a couple of novelette's to finish as well.
Shockingly, I have less that ten graphic novels out from the library and the to read stack on my coffee table looks downright reasonable. Until you realise that five of them are due at the library next week. Um, oops?
I can safely say that I'm thoroughly enjoying the first volume of the newer Avengers series by Brian Michael Bendis (as differenciated from all the other multitudes of Avengers lines including New Avengers, which I'm also enjoying from Comixology) and I'm looking forward to the Hawkeye stuff that's next on my pile.
Mum (my library mule) says that I have to restrain myself from putting Buffy Season 8 on hold until the to be read stack is down to only one or two books. She may have a point.
So next Friday, I'll put All The Buffy! on hold :-D
And on August 1st, I'm going through my back-log on Comixology and reading all of those because I will be done with Hugo reading and allowed to read Other Books and Stuff Not Due At The Library.
I'll also be hiding in some Mercedes Lackey and some Scalzi for a few days plus all the lovely treats waiting on my Kindle, such as Huntress by Malinda Lo.
So. Much. Reading. Yay :-D
Note to self 3: remember that you're on a writing deadline and need to actually write even when the Hugo and library reading catch-up are over and you're drowning yourself in fluff and fun.
ETA: I found out last night that Mum has been reading some of the stuff that I get from the library, like the occasional volume of Fables (she likes Bigby a lot) and one of the X-Men books. My poor mother, turning into a nerd by osmosis :-D
Note to self 2: sleep is a good thing, try it some day.
Apparently we are going to be fudging paperwork in some way to get my new hours started on Monday. I'm horribly confused about how we're doing this and have visions of getting called into HR at some stage for disciplinary meetings about absenteeism.
My boss will be coming to our office tomorrow to discuss it with us. I'm really not comfortable with faking my time-sheets to get this through without involving HR. If that's what is required, I'm tempted to tell him that I'll wait to start my new hours until after HR has done their bit and got the system set up properly for me.
Particularly if HR doesn't know that we're going to be faking time-sheets and someone tries to do the addition work on what my time-sheet is billing the projects that I'm on.
Much as I want my new hours to start, I'm wary about the trouble that I could be storing up for myself. I mean, what happens if I get sick and we're suddenly trying to figure out how this impacts me time and HR didn't know that I'd already changed my hours? Argh, so many potential pitfalls!
I'm also going to need to really quizz the boss about how to enter time for the medical appointments that I have coming up over the next two weeks. I've got a vampire visit next week, a GI visit the week after and if he confirms that I'm flaring then there will probably be a number of GI visits in the next few weeks while we fiddle with meds and get me stabilised.
And that only makes it more likely that there could be some sick time, which will eventually get HR to notice me and question my time submissions. Can we all just say, cluster-fuck in the making here?
Also, apparently I cannot type or proof-read my documents. Every change request that I've sent in this week has been initially rejected because I make tiny typos. Yesterday I had two periods in a file name. Today I have typed in incorrect file extensions. I'm thoroughly annoyed wih myself.
Next week there will be a five day break between sporting events. My evenings will be oddly empty. Maybe I'll actually do some reading or something. I have got quite the reading list of stuff that I need to finish by the end of the month, after all. I really need to get further with GRRM and there are a couple of novelette's to finish as well.
Shockingly, I have less that ten graphic novels out from the library and the to read stack on my coffee table looks downright reasonable. Until you realise that five of them are due at the library next week. Um, oops?
I can safely say that I'm thoroughly enjoying the first volume of the newer Avengers series by Brian Michael Bendis (as differenciated from all the other multitudes of Avengers lines including New Avengers, which I'm also enjoying from Comixology) and I'm looking forward to the Hawkeye stuff that's next on my pile.
Mum (my library mule) says that I have to restrain myself from putting Buffy Season 8 on hold until the to be read stack is down to only one or two books. She may have a point.
So next Friday, I'll put All The Buffy! on hold :-D
And on August 1st, I'm going through my back-log on Comixology and reading all of those because I will be done with Hugo reading and allowed to read Other Books and Stuff Not Due At The Library.
I'll also be hiding in some Mercedes Lackey and some Scalzi for a few days plus all the lovely treats waiting on my Kindle, such as Huntress by Malinda Lo.
So. Much. Reading. Yay :-D
Note to self 3: remember that you're on a writing deadline and need to actually write even when the Hugo and library reading catch-up are over and you're drowning yourself in fluff and fun.
ETA: I found out last night that Mum has been reading some of the stuff that I get from the library, like the occasional volume of Fables (she likes Bigby a lot) and one of the X-Men books. My poor mother, turning into a nerd by osmosis :-D
