My husband and I spent Monday together, with our computers. This is my weekly day off that we try to spend both physically and psychologically together. While he slogged away at an endless contract, I combed through my Tim Hortons piece. One of my friends reminded me that a group of activists had been sued by McDonalds for handing out leaflets on the corporation's rape of the the rainforest (or sumpin' like that). As my piece casts the donut-meister in a somewhat unflattering light, my paranoia went into high gear and led to some obsessive fact-checking.
Although hubbie realizes that writing is important to me, he's had it up to the eyeballs with Tim Hortons! Can't blame him. I was just glad to get it off my chest. But let me just point out that HE was the one who insisted I start blogging. I did, then obsession took over, and now it's almost compulsive. This experience was further enhanced by checking the number of views of my profile.
Anyhoo...
The day was not spent together, and little did I realize that this was going to be a week that sorely tested my patience. I should have used Monday for some much deserved R&R. Tuesday was a surprise training session on a very complicated piece of software, which lasted for six-hours. Then on Wednesday, I attended a meeting of the Well-Ness Committee, which I thought wasto address the high incidence of employee burnout. Instead it turned out to be more like some social committee, with an extremely wide mandate and no budget.
All of this was in addition to all my regular deadlines, family obligations and posting a 4-part investigation (except there were 5 articles). It was kind of stressful, especially because I could not stop myself from checking to see how many people had viewed my articles on NowPublic.
We ended the week with a little bit of union-management strife.
Anyway, I'm so excited to be writing and having people read my work and comment on it. It's pretty freakin' exciting!
Although hubbie realizes that writing is important to me, he's had it up to the eyeballs with Tim Hortons! Can't blame him. I was just glad to get it off my chest. But let me just point out that HE was the one who insisted I start blogging. I did, then obsession took over, and now it's almost compulsive. This experience was further enhanced by checking the number of views of my profile.
Anyhoo...
The day was not spent together, and little did I realize that this was going to be a week that sorely tested my patience. I should have used Monday for some much deserved R&R. Tuesday was a surprise training session on a very complicated piece of software, which lasted for six-hours. Then on Wednesday, I attended a meeting of the Well-Ness Committee, which I thought wasto address the high incidence of employee burnout. Instead it turned out to be more like some social committee, with an extremely wide mandate and no budget.
All of this was in addition to all my regular deadlines, family obligations and posting a 4-part investigation (except there were 5 articles). It was kind of stressful, especially because I could not stop myself from checking to see how many people had viewed my articles on NowPublic.
We ended the week with a little bit of union-management strife.
Anyway, I'm so excited to be writing and having people read my work and comment on it. It's pretty freakin' exciting!
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