The day I got back to work from the holidays, there was an avalanche of work. That’s bad enough, but on top of that there is a major project hitting deadline in a few days. So I worked some yesterday, and after coffee (I’m at the coffee house), I will be going in to work for abut 5 hours or so.

And I am working nowhere near as hard as the some of the other staff – the techies in particular.

Not that this makes me less grumpy or less tired. I am trying to reduce the emotional symptoms by sitting quietly watching things go by (like I did yesterday) and by watching light fare at the cinema (yesterday evening).  I suppose it’s helping because I am going to work today, because I haven’t snapped anyone’s head off, and I haven’t retreated into illness.

The thing is that, as part of the new system, I now have a work Blackberry. So before the lights went down at the cinema, I checked my work mail, responded to a couple.  After the movie, on the bus home, I checked again, and responded. Bloody thing. There was a reason I didn’t have a cell phone.

I don’t want to read; now you know how frazzled I feel. I have a book with me but all I want to do is drink my caffeine down and stare at the wall. I have a low grade headache, so that’s part of it.

Oh well. It’s short term. Come the 18th, we will have got all the t’s crossed – or we won’t.

Whinge done.