Singing the productivity blues.

[judecorp]

Okay, so I didn't really expect to be terribly productive at work this week, and had chalked it up to a wash already, especially with there being no playgroups this week. (Playgroups usually net me about 9 hours of productivity a week.) After all, lots of people are out of town, entertaining guests, or sick this week - so you can expect cancellations as well as fewer appointments. A giant snowstorm on Monday didn't help this at all, either.

Today I had a pretty full day scheduled, even though I didn't particularly want to work a full, crazy day the night before a long weekend. I had Supervision at 8:00, and then home visits at 10:00, 11:30, 4:00, and 5:15, and an assessment from 2:00 to 4:00. Busy.

I got to supervision in a half-asleep stupor, and got ready for my day. I went to my 10:00 without incident, and got to my 11:30 to find out that while Mom was home, the child was not and she forgot I was coming. No problem. I went back to work and found out that my 2:00 was cancelled, and then later received a phone call to cancel my 4:00 because everyone is sick. So I could have technically left around 1:00 (when I received all these cancellations), except I had to stick around for my 5:15. Bummer.

I couldn't find anything else to keep myself busy, so at 4:00 I tried to drop in on a family (they weren't home) and then went home to wait for my 5:15. I crammed myself back into my damned car and went to my 5:15. AND THEY WEREN'T HOME. And I called, and I waited 10 minutes and called again, and they still weren't home. (They changed our appointment from Wednesday to Thursday on Tuesday, so it's not even like they forgot with all the holidays.) WTF is up with that??!? So then not only did I have SIX hours of billable time scheduled and only got one hour, I stuck around all freaking day for nothing.

I am so irritated with this. I suppose I should find a way to laugh it off (maybe booze will help), but it seems so freaking ridiculous that I put in four full days of work and am only getting 12 hours of productivity (goal is 23.9/week). Bonus be damned, I guess, because I'll never hit quota at this rate. Argh.

(On a more positive note, I finally got my hair cookies and mix CD from chutup today. The post office finally relinquished it to me!! YAY! Thanks, chutup, but I still don't understand why they're called Hair Cookies.)

Comments

[chutup.livejournal.com]

you're kidding!!!! they just got there? they were supposed to be guaranteed sunday 3pm


/PISSED/

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Do they even deliver on Sundays??!

I imagine some of the hold-up was due to snow, first in C-bus and then here. But if you DO want to get pissed, I will tell you that they didn't even try a First Attempt here until Tuesday the 28th at about Noon. And then I tried to get them at the post office on Wednesday morning, and was told they were on the truck and not at the PO. And then they tried to deliver them again last night (the 29th) at 5pm, but I was not home. So I was able to pick them up at the post office today.

The bread thing was a good idea! The cookies are still soft. I had never heard of this bread thing before.

But yes, you should call the post office and bitch. Because even with the whole lack-of-Sunday thing, they STILL should have come on Monday.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

But why are they called HAIR COOKIES??!???!?!

[chutup.livejournal.com]

that's the sekrit ingredient that makes them TASTE GOOD!!! what do you think i did with all my hair when i got it ALL CUT OFF?!?!?!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhhh. It all makes sense now. ;)

p.s. They were really yummy, thanks! All of my coworkers ATE YOUR NUTS, too!

[thespian.livejournal.com]

what is a hair cookie?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I don't know! I wish she would just TELL ME ALREADY! (Last time I asked her, she said, "I'll send you some in the mail!" I thought receiving the cookies would solve the mystery, but I am still puzzled!)

[colorbars.livejournal.com]

Note: Goodle didn't help here.

On an interesting note, your post from Dec 20 showed up as the fourth hit when I searched.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

That's because my journal is so googlable! I was something like the 35th most Googled LiveJournal out of all the journals in existance!

[carina-s.livejournal.com]

I didn't get much done at work either. I hope no one noticed.

Are you feeling better so we can call? The twins would like to talk to you!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Awwwh, you are sweet!

Yes, I am feeling better... but can't really talk tonight. We just got back from a movie (dunno when you sent this comment, it's now 9:45 PM) and I'm on a major cleaning binge to pick up from our New Years get-together.

Tomorrow? It's my grandfather's birthday and we're heading to RI to take him out to dinner with the rest of my family, but that shouldn't take all day...