Running on fumes

[selenay]

I know I said that I can't imagine time existing after my Big Deploy weekend, but I lied. Not that I can make plans or even consider the possibility that specific dates exist, but...

I am so very, very tired. And stressed. And TIRED. This weekend I've got a bunch of stuff that I need to get done, none of them relaxing things. Next weekend, I'm theoretically at my local convention (unless I have to work and then I'm working), which will hopefully be fun but will definitely be exhausting. Then it's Deploy Weekend. The 11th should be a holiday, but we're working it. And the Saturday. And the Sunday. And then we spend the following week putting out fires and possibly working part of the weekend due to another team's big Thing that my upgrade team may need to support.

So there's going to be this period of time where I have absolutely no time off and no rest and I've somehow got to write the last chapter of my Big Bang fic and get the whole thing edited for November 15th, so I've started fantasising about this:

Having an entire day, maybe two, where I have nothing I have to do. Where I am free to read or watch TV and do not need to think about working or writing. It sounds like heaven.

Hopefully all the time in lieu I'll be accruing will enable me to make that happen at some stage. For now, it's just a fantasy. I really, really want it to happen, though.

Comments

[lilacsigil]

I hope they follow through with your days in lieu and you get a lovely, lovely break when this is done.

[selenay]

Well, the overtime will get banked. Then I just have to find the time to take it and have that break! Hopefully our post-deploy support needs won't go on for too long.

[nic]

I know how you feel. Between grad school and work (and recovering from a trip) there is just zero time for anything else! I am counting down until Christmas....

[selenay]

*fistbump* It's so exhausting to get caught in this cycle!

[paranoidangel]

I know how you feel - this is what happens to me every November/December. Albeit without getting any time of in lieu.

[selenay]

Ugh :-( When we get one of these events--where we end up working twenty or thirty hours extra over one weekend--they're pretty good about making sure we get TOIL for it. We don't get a huge amount of vacation and we do need a break to recover from a massive push! Usually this kind of thing happens to me in either August or October, though. We haven't ended up with a huge project going live this late in the year for a long, long time.