Tired and cranky, all I want to do is curl up under the
covers and sleep for a few more hours.
But it’s Monday, and I have to be at work by 7:30 a.m.
I’m especially feeling sorry for myself, because although
it’s a provincial stat holiday today, my employment contract doesn’t allow me
the day off. As I drive to work on
streets slick with ice from the freezing rain/snow mix from yesterday, I mutter
to myself, “how nice for the City employees who aren’t working to sand the
streets”.
As I near the office, I realize I’ve left my lunch at home,
and the cafeteria at City Hall where I would normally grab a bite, is
closed.
Over and over, I say to myself…it’s not what happens to me,
but how I react to it. Whatever!
Today I can’t get my mind to focus. I’ve got four things on the go, I’m
researching an issue for one of my staff,
I’ve got the digital newspaper open, I’m trying to plan for a meeting
this afternoon, and I’m mentally drafting a mid-term performance review for
another member of my team. I’m
accomplishing nothing and feeling more frustrated by the moment.
Three cups of coffee later, I’m finally in a place where I
can make sense of things. I’ve done as
much research as is possible, without being certain of the facts of the
situation, the news isn’t new anymore, the meeting has ended with no firm
resolution but with an offer for assistance with a particularly thorny issue
received (and gratefully accepted), and I’ve decided the mid-year performance
review can wait until next week.
Monday is NOT my favorite day of the work week. It’s either overwhelmingly busy with meetings
and e-mail (some folks have nothing better to do on weekends, sigh), or so
deathly quiet, I feel as though I’m being water tortured as the seconds tick
by. Today was the latter, with several
of my team off on vacation, another home sick; there was only one member in…not
much to supervise.
But I've learned I can’t blame my entire attention deficit on the fact it
is Monday. Out of curiosity I did some
quick research on the symptoms of menopause….number 10 on the list is
“difficulty concentrating”. The article
I read lists thirty-four different symptoms.
WOW! I hadn't realized there were
more than these 7.
P.S. The bonus of a quiet day at work....I was able to write the blog post, e-mail it to myself at home for editing before posting.
1 comment:
Jeezus, 34 symptoms? I thought mine were bad enough. I was fine all weekend, and yesterday too, then all of a sudden in the evening the rage came over me. Serves me right for slacking off on the Serenity herbal stuff I'd been taking. I really didn't put much stock in it, but last month things went along tickety boo. Then I stopped taking the stuff and holy cod, look out. "Bitchy" doesn't even come close. LOL.
Anyway, I hope your Tuesday is a much better day. I'm wrestling with a Ministry spreadsheet (semi-annual project) and I'd like to tear the limbs from the idiots who make every university start from scratch every. single. time. (i.e. enter the SAME data over from scratch, twice a year). It's the height of stupidity. Grrrrrr.
OMC, I'd better stop. LOL. This isn't helping YOU. :-D
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