Random Thoughts from a Large Head

I reached a breaking point last night. After spending hours trying to get a site to work correctly across all the browsers, I could take no more. The smallest thing irritated me: grammatical and spelling errors in the copy I was working with, Gracie being too distracted when I walked her and not getting down to business, and so on. I finally decided to call it quits on the day and go to bed. At which time, Gracie decided to cuddle up with me and then pee on the bed and me. I snapped. After ripping the sheets off the bed, I just got in a hot shower and sobbed. That helped, as did sleeping, but I still feel pretty off this morning.

My temp agency has placed me in a three-month gig working five hours a day every afternoon. I’m looking forward to the regular additional source of income, but I’m scared of the time commitment. When I accepted, it was Tuesday and I had almost a whole week before starting. Then, the temp agency called and said that the people I worked for all last week loved me and hoped I would come back for another 16 hours to finish up some work that I had started while waiting for some data to come in on the project I was there to do. Flattered, I said I’d be there Thursday and possibly Friday. If I don’t get it all done this week, then I will have to go mornings next week, and I really don’t want to get up early to get downtown and then scoot to another job in the afternoon. Then, my regular weekly gig, who hadn’t called in two weeks, emailed me seeing if I could come help her this week. The only possibility was this afternoon. So I went from having five days off (in which I was planning to try and get as much done on the two complete sites and one site design that are on the table for Apt Minds) to having an afternoon and a morning.

It’s nice being in demand and all, but I feel like I’ve gone from zero to sixty in 30 seconds. I think dwelling on the looming work all day caused the big snap.

Ok, enough of this personal nonsense. We now return you to your regularly scheduled semi-witty drivel.