Still here. Still not doing much on the creative front. I've got to fix that soon.
But there's been a lot else going on. One of my stupid co-workers quit. There are only three of us total, and that's barely enough to keep things going. Now that she quit, there are only two, and it's a disaster. I am barely treading water to just meet each day's deadlines, and getting nothing done on the backlog of stuff that isn't an emergency yet (but probably will have to become one before I can get to it). I've had to increase my hours, something I really don't like. And to add insult to injury, the only way out of this mess is for us to hire someone new and then I have to train them. I really hate training people. I don't know why, I just do. I don't like to be bothered. I like to come to work, be left alone to do my job, and go home. Training people is tedious and time-consuming. It takes me three times as long to explain how to do something as it would to just do it, so I just get further behind - but it has to be done, else how are they going to learn?
I really wish my boss's practice was small enough that we didn't need to hire a new person, and I could just handle the work ... it would really be preferable to me to hiring someone new. The way our office is set up, that third co-worker sits at a desk that's about five feet away from mine, in a tiny little room in the back where 80% of the guts of the office are crammed in - 2 desks, all the filing cabinets, the copier/printer/fax/scanner monstrosity, and an extra printer. There is barely room to move in there. Having to work in such close proximity with someone else all day long is, I think, one of the things that makes my job so draining. I am not a people person. Some people enjoy being around people, it recharges them or something. I am just the opposite ... being around other people (most of them, there are a few exceptions) just drains me. I think having that third person in my face all day is what makes me so tired after work, far more than the actual work I do.
I've talked to my boss numerous times about rearranging or remodeling the office - heck, I'd be happy to have a cubicle. At least I'd have some privacy. He always says, "Yeah, yeah! Great idea!" then does nothing. I'd start on him about it again now, except he has a new scheme.
He has decided he's tired of practicing law, and plans to shut down the office and open up a pizza shop franchise. Well, that's the Cliff Notes version. It's a bit more complex than that. I've been asked if maybe this is just all talk. It may well be, but I will say that he's far more serious about this than he has been about anything else I've heard him come up with in the 11 years I've been there. He's not prone to spouting off strange ideas like that. He's been talking about this for quite a few months. So he may actually do it, I don't know.
But as long as he's still talking about it, there's no way he's going to invest any money in remodeling the office now - not when he's planning to close it in a year. So I guess I'm stuck with at least another year of working in the closet with another freak co-worker.
Oh, and arrrggghhh. The new Pirates movie came out last night. A bunch of us are going to see it tonight, then coming back to my place for a little pirate party. Maybe I'll remember to take pictures to post this weekend.
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