on call

It's my turn to be on call for work this week. Being on call also means I'm the help desk for our group for the week, and while I've only gotten paged on Monday night, the requests have been flying in during the day. I'm also on the hook for doing tasks on Saturday that cannot be done during the week. So far I figure I have 4-5 hours of work for this weekend, with one more day to go. The up-side is I'll get a comp. day for it. But it is wiping me out. I get home and veg. Don't want to write or read and have spent much too much time doing nothing in front of the computer and the television. Hence this token effort to counter that.

I owe people phone calls and email. My stack of unread periodicals now numbers over 25, and I suspect the bottom half of that (if not more) will remain unread forever. I have projects half-done and some yet to be started. It's like I went on vacation and my energy level and my schedule never recovered. I did go see "Iron Man 2" last Sunday. I want to go see "The girl with the dragon tattoo" this coming weekend, as it's at the upscale theatre downtown. Of course that's all just more diversion and delay.

I'm done being on call Sunday at midnight. I am hoping that with a new week will come new motivation.