Pouring like an avalanche comin' down the mountain [work]

[mizarchivist]

I took yesterday off to recover from bbq madness, and it was a good and useful thing.
I came in to work today to a large amount of email and voicemails, which I rarely get. My new minion, who is playing the role of me this summer while I'm Not In The Office, arrived on time and I started showing her around. I continued to do this All. Morning. After lunch, I did the work that I couldn't do while training her plus all that set-her-up-in-our-computer stuff, which was a lot easier than I expected thanks to the very very very clueful IT dude who replace the not so helpful guy who's apparently been out of that company for... 8 months? Woot!!
So, Minion is very fantastic. Co-worker, R., finds her very clever, which makes me happy. R's happiness means I'm happy and can leave without worrying that they're cursing me for going. Also I'll be able to come back and not have to spend 6 months fixing.
Minion follows directions, reads directions (this is harder to get people to do than you'd think, even in the library staff. Quit laughing, Kate- I know you know this one). I'm working out the best method to doing stuff with her as I go. She takes notes, then will write them up into a useful document later. I will check the document to make sure it's right and complete. All this means I don't have to create a manual for her while reinforcing what I said, so win-win.

This means, however, I expect the next 2 weeks to be hellaciously busy and I'm a lot less likely to respond to LJ, email, or even my phone while I'm at work. I'll get there eventually, but don't expect me to know what you're writing here. The fact that I'm writing right now rather than reading what ya'll are saying is an irony not lost on me. I'll be headed to Hartford for the big national hoopla on Thursday afternoon and returning Friday night, so it's an extra wacky week.

Comments

They were drinkin from a fountain...

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Now that song is in my head. Hmph.

Re: They were drinkin from a fountain...

[mizarchivist]

But it's an awesome song!

Re: They were drinkin from a fountain...

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

J knew a girl who knew those Butthole Surfer dudes. One of them had a brother who was a concert violinist. Now *there's* a contrast.

[drwex]

It is an awesome song, not least because it's about the things I miss about Texas, sort of.

Congrats on having an able minion and being able to relax about all that will now go well.

Travel safe!

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

it's about the things I miss about Texas, sort of.

Pauly caught a bullet but it only hit his leg,
Well it should've been a better shot and got him in the head.

...er?

[drwex]

Never lived in Texas, have you? It's kind of hard to explain. Closest I can come is "it's the attitude."

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

Never lived in Texas, have you?

Nope. Virginia is probably the closest I've ever lived to Texas.

Closest I can come is "it's the attitude."

Words cannot express my bafflement that this is not only an attitude, but seems to have adherents. I am probably thoroughly mistaken, but this seems to suggest that Texans have a collective death wish?

[drwex]

You could say that. I suspect you might say something similar about the New York attitude. In Texas I don't think it's a matter of death wish so much as "if yer gonna do th' durn thing, son, y'otter do it right, not sloppy."