"On call" is a relative term
4 Jan 2008 03:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kangeikoIt's half three in the morning and I'm still up. Urgh. Suspect that this is because I made the mistake of checking my work email "just quickly" before going to bed. "Just quickly" turned into a good few hours as I tried to untangle the mess awaiting me.
I'd anticipated a nice, easy start to the year come Monday morning. Instead, I'm bound for a central govt department with no briefing book and little in the way of sleep. Oh, and I have that nice cosy chat come Wednesday, just me & a senior partner, for a full hour, wherein I need to sound Not Crap (tm). *shudders* They weren't kidding about the "both feet & into the deep end, too" bit of the promotions, were they? Still, I suppose it's my own fault. I should have waited until Sunday afternoon to check the state of the mess, like most normal people.
Boy am I glad that I have tomorrow off! One last glorious day of holiday... and the weekend to recover. (& continue untangling, one presumes.)
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Right, the heating has been on for a long time, and so hopefully it'll be warm enough to actually sleep tonight. I spent last night shivering and not actually doing any sleeping. Although it did have the bonus benefit of burning of a surprising number of calories through sheer muscle spasms.
One might almost think that I was back up in Edinburgh again.
I'd anticipated a nice, easy start to the year come Monday morning. Instead, I'm bound for a central govt department with no briefing book and little in the way of sleep. Oh, and I have that nice cosy chat come Wednesday, just me & a senior partner, for a full hour, wherein I need to sound Not Crap (tm). *shudders* They weren't kidding about the "both feet & into the deep end, too" bit of the promotions, were they? Still, I suppose it's my own fault. I should have waited until Sunday afternoon to check the state of the mess, like most normal people.
Boy am I glad that I have tomorrow off! One last glorious day of holiday... and the weekend to recover. (& continue untangling, one presumes.)
*
Right, the heating has been on for a long time, and so hopefully it'll be warm enough to actually sleep tonight. I spent last night shivering and not actually doing any sleeping. Although it did have the bonus benefit of burning of a surprising number of calories through sheer muscle spasms.
One might almost think that I was back up in Edinburgh again.