Miserable

According to my fancy new Beagles 2008 calendar, today is a holiday called Day After New Year’s Day in New Zealand and some mysterious country abbreviated as SCT (right now all I can come up with is South Connecticut, which was not a country the last time I looked). Now, I don’t know why the day after New Year’s Day qualifies as a holiday in these two places, unless they are all such prodigious drinkers that everyone in those countries gets two day hangovers, but I think I need to consider relocating. Going back to work today did not go well. I had a horrible day, and frankly, I don’t want to go back tomorrow.

Seriously, this day sucked the life out of me. Yes, I’ve been off for eleven days, but four of those days were weekend days (and I actually put in a full day of work on one of those weekend days), and three were holidays, so technically, I only missed four days when my company was open for business. I have to say, I don’t quite understand how so much stuff happened in what is typically a pretty quiet week. 15 different people jumped on me as soon as I walked in the door with questions and meeting requests and problems and new projects and I got absolutely no time to ease back in or even get caught up. While I was out, I got something like 1,700 emails which naturally I still haven’t managed to wade through completely. Oh, some people were glad to see me back in the office. Pretty much everyone else seemed determined to make me start fervently counting down the days to Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Plus, it was ridiculously cold and windy here today. You all know how I feel about cold and windy weather.

Tomorrow had better be better. I am determined to find a way to make tomorrow better, if only through sheer force of will, but I don’t see this as a shining start to my new year. Hope your day was better than mine!