A Little Overwhelmed

It’s been a whirlwind of a last seven days.

Thursday: Went to work, then went to Etobicoke to hang out with my brother for the first time since he returned from Japan. Went for dinner and caught up on life with him. Crashed at his place

Friday: Picked up my parents around 7am at the airport. They had been to Japan, Australia and New Zeland. Chatted with them for a bit and then made plans to have dinner wtih them after their nap. Drove home and furiously cleaned until they arrived. Spent time catching up until Alan got off work, then went to August 8 for sushi & duim sum.

Saturday: Went to work to make up for not working on Friday. Spent the day testing the office’s network security and ensuring there were no dead man switches or other nasty things on the servers. Finished reading Anansi Boys

Sunday: My 27th birthday. Did very little. Started and finished reading Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom. Alan made me dinner and went to Dairy Queen. Got random texts from people wishing me well

Monday: The calm before the storm. Went to work, had to stay late to finish up a bit of stuff. Didn’t sleep well.

Tuesday: The storm. My company announced that they were outsourcing about 60% of their workforce to India. One person in IT will be going there to set up and then run the new team. One other IT person was let go. Two people will be leaving from our Data Entry department at the end of the month. My job is safe, I just have way more of it now. Stayed late ensuring all the root passwords were changed and the other administrative details were addressed. We have too many accounts and servers.

Wednesday: Fallout. Trying to establish a new work routine and get things done. People keep interrupting me with little issues that need to be immediately dealt with and I possibly make negative progress.

Today: My car greets me with a flat tire. I spend about twenty minutes thinking that as a modern woman I should be able to do this myself, can’t get the nuts loose, and can’t locate the thingy you hook the jack to. Give up and ask Alan to help me. Am about an hour and a half late to work. Get only about two hours worth of coding and bugfixing done in the six hours I was there with others. They all left, and I managed to get more work done in that next hour and a half than I did in the entire rest of the day. Come home completely exhausted.

It has been an up and down week. I’ve known about the changes coming at my job for about six weeks, and it has seriously affected the amount of sleep I’ve been getting, and just generally weighing me down. Tuesday was hell, it was overwhelming and emotional, but at least it offered a little bit of closure. I know the next few weeks will be extremely trying as well, but I’m going to try and stay positive about the experience. My birthday was a little bit anti-climatic, because I didn’t really want to do too much. Alan and I had originally planned to go for lunch that day, but we went with my parents on Friday, so that ended up being a little bit more of a celebratory day than the actual day.

Here’s hoping for a few days of peace and quiet.