So close, so very close
Jul. 31st, 2020 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayGosh it is very hot here. I do not like this. Ugh. Thankfully the temperature is supposed to be more reasonable tomorrow. Please let the forecast be right.
I'm an hour away (ish) from downing tools and going on leave for a week. I can't wait. This week has been ridiculous and I need a break. The level of anxiety and horror from people around the business when I noted that I'm out next week just makes me more anxious about doing this, but it's going to be fine. I've cleared the decks of all the urgent things. The key departments know I'm not going to be in and anything they need me for will need to wait.
Co-worker L has been given all the handover stuff she should need. I've verified that there are people in next week who have access to anything she doesn't have. We've set the expectation for what she'll achieve as "definitely not what we'd achieve if both of us were in", and everyone who might need things has been told this. We've agreed her priorities and she's only to take on extra tasks that are genuinely time sensitive, not tasks that someone wants but could manage without for a week. And if she takes on any extra tasks, then the work she'd planned next week will slip and nobody is allowed to complain about this.
Hopefully this is enough and I'll actually get my week off uninterrupted.
My plans mostly involve my sofa, some books, some fic, and The Untamed. Maybe a trip to a gardening centre with Mum if I'm feeling brave.
Maybe not.
I've got that meta I want to write about text, subtext, Guardian, and Xena. I have a fic to get beta'd. I might try to scratch the fix-it fic itch at the back of my brain.
I'm going to try to keep my break low-key and relaxing and not feel guilty about not doing anything productive. It's been such a weird and stressful few months, I really just need a break.
I'm an hour away (ish) from downing tools and going on leave for a week. I can't wait. This week has been ridiculous and I need a break. The level of anxiety and horror from people around the business when I noted that I'm out next week just makes me more anxious about doing this, but it's going to be fine. I've cleared the decks of all the urgent things. The key departments know I'm not going to be in and anything they need me for will need to wait.
Co-worker L has been given all the handover stuff she should need. I've verified that there are people in next week who have access to anything she doesn't have. We've set the expectation for what she'll achieve as "definitely not what we'd achieve if both of us were in", and everyone who might need things has been told this. We've agreed her priorities and she's only to take on extra tasks that are genuinely time sensitive, not tasks that someone wants but could manage without for a week. And if she takes on any extra tasks, then the work she'd planned next week will slip and nobody is allowed to complain about this.
Hopefully this is enough and I'll actually get my week off uninterrupted.
My plans mostly involve my sofa, some books, some fic, and The Untamed. Maybe a trip to a gardening centre with Mum if I'm feeling brave.
Maybe not.
I've got that meta I want to write about text, subtext, Guardian, and Xena. I have a fic to get beta'd. I might try to scratch the fix-it fic itch at the back of my brain.
I'm going to try to keep my break low-key and relaxing and not feel guilty about not doing anything productive. It's been such a weird and stressful few months, I really just need a break.
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