Ramble. Something about time.

Oh, hi. I “missed” 2 days of writing. So….. *awkward silence*

An update to my previous post- apparently Brisbane City Council are allowing people to waive their library fines by donating cans of food to Foodbank (who go on to distribute them to people in need). I really like this.

I’m a bit tired and although there are so many things I want to write about (a letter to ALIA’s recent incite mag concerning the usage of ‘customer’ and ‘customer service’ instead of ‘patrons’ etc caught my eye), I am suffering from brain dead day (aka first day of period), so the most important thing on my mind at the moment is that focaccia dough that is rising near my heater.

Actually, I was wondering how others deal with ‘tired’ days on the job. It is not as if one can be alert all the time, with hormones, moods unrelated to the work at hand (ie you are thinking about why so-and-so never does the washing or something, even though you are at work now and there isn’t much you can do about it right now!), what you did (or did not) eat for breakfast, etc. Does “time management” (I am using finger air quotes) save you?

Don’t mean to snark on time management (ok, I lie), but it seems so much of it is really managing ourselves and where we are at this very moment, rather than what we are specifically working on at work. I have been in jobs where I have been treated as a human being and in jobs where I have been treated as a cog in a machine.

Here is the paradox: it is harder to manage yourself when you are considered to be the cog.

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