Weirdness and oddities.
Apr. 22nd, 2004 12:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reynardoFor what happened a couple of days ago, read this entry in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
techsupport.
The rest of the journal starts .
I'm on the graveyard shift this week. In some ways it's the best shift - when the whole of our system in Queensland went down last night, it was 30 calls in a row for 100 seconds each, which will really bring my call stats up. I get to surf the web and catch up on journals, read, get to know my cow-orker better and catch up on paperwork. I also get to have dinner with my family - mostly. And I get four days off at the end, and THIS TIME I'm going to Melbourne and partying.
However, it does mean I have to drive home during the major morning peak hour, try hard not to over-nibble during the calls, cope with a small person at home during the holidays while I'm asleep, try to do normal household tasks while in a state of near-exhaustion (you try remembering to pay bills, rent, compare savings plans, book the dog in for holidays, get the car serviced and buy something for dinner at midnight. That's what midday is to me right now).
And by the time I've reached the end of the 7 days, I'm getting rather frazzled around the edges, arriving at work with my eyes barely open, hitting the coke and the coffee with a vengance, and not always making sense in either calls or emails, especially to friends. It also means I'm starting to be short with my family, and not coping as well as I ought to with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
da_norvegicus and his totally-normal-for-a-12-year-old habits.
(sigh)
I am so looking forward to this weekend in Melbourne. But alas, I will need some sleep too.
Will someone please add another four hours to the day?
techsupport. The rest of the journal starts .
I'm on the graveyard shift this week. In some ways it's the best shift - when the whole of our system in Queensland went down last night, it was 30 calls in a row for 100 seconds each, which will really bring my call stats up. I get to surf the web and catch up on journals, read, get to know my cow-orker better and catch up on paperwork. I also get to have dinner with my family - mostly. And I get four days off at the end, and THIS TIME I'm going to Melbourne and partying.
However, it does mean I have to drive home during the major morning peak hour, try hard not to over-nibble during the calls, cope with a small person at home during the holidays while I'm asleep, try to do normal household tasks while in a state of near-exhaustion (you try remembering to pay bills, rent, compare savings plans, book the dog in for holidays, get the car serviced and buy something for dinner at midnight. That's what midday is to me right now).
And by the time I've reached the end of the 7 days, I'm getting rather frazzled around the edges, arriving at work with my eyes barely open, hitting the coke and the coffee with a vengance, and not always making sense in either calls or emails, especially to friends. It also means I'm starting to be short with my family, and not coping as well as I ought to with
da_norvegicus and his totally-normal-for-a-12-year-old habits. (sigh)
I am so looking forward to this weekend in Melbourne. But alas, I will need some sleep too.
Will someone please add another four hours to the day?
