Giddy with delight
Oct. 17th, 2003 05:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinanjuI'm sitting here doing data entry (just got notice that the server has to be shut down and restarted, so that's my excuse for posting to LiveJournal now), as I've been doing all day. We had a day-and-a-half long mid-campaign review this week. The final assessment: too many people have been too lax about getting their ducks in a row as required of them. (Not that this is news to me--as a support person down in the trenches, I've known this was the case for a while.)
So--everyone's been put on notice that they will get their paperwork in order, and they'll do it by end of day Tuesday. Which means lots of data entry work me today and early next week. But, you know, I'm not minding it. As compared to the stress over the last month or two as we danced 'round and 'round, reworking the numbers again and again because they weren't adding up correctly, simply inputting numbers so they'll be in the master file [where they ought to have been all along...] is almost pleasant.
Simple. Direct. Time-consuming but necessary and worthwhile, as opposed to reworking spreadsheets again and again knowing that they aren't going to add up this time either.
In fact, I've spent most of the day doing data-entry and listening first to my Best of Jimmy Buffett CD and then (now) Oingo Boingo. There's something about their cheerfully morbid lyrics and bouncy music that just makes me giddy with delight. I've realized that I'm really, really happy this afternoon. Partly, of course, because it's Friday afternoon and I have a weekend (and a party) to look forward to, but more because a) the stress of the last couple of months is past, and b) we seem to have actually finally addressed the root cause of the stress and are working to correct it. That's good.
That's very good. I'm a happy camper. I actually feel like my icon today.
So--everyone's been put on notice that they will get their paperwork in order, and they'll do it by end of day Tuesday. Which means lots of data entry work me today and early next week. But, you know, I'm not minding it. As compared to the stress over the last month or two as we danced 'round and 'round, reworking the numbers again and again because they weren't adding up correctly, simply inputting numbers so they'll be in the master file [where they ought to have been all along...] is almost pleasant.
Simple. Direct. Time-consuming but necessary and worthwhile, as opposed to reworking spreadsheets again and again knowing that they aren't going to add up this time either.
In fact, I've spent most of the day doing data-entry and listening first to my Best of Jimmy Buffett CD and then (now) Oingo Boingo. There's something about their cheerfully morbid lyrics and bouncy music that just makes me giddy with delight. I've realized that I'm really, really happy this afternoon. Partly, of course, because it's Friday afternoon and I have a weekend (and a party) to look forward to, but more because a) the stress of the last couple of months is past, and b) we seem to have actually finally addressed the root cause of the stress and are working to correct it. That's good.
That's very good. I'm a happy camper. I actually feel like my icon today.
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