I've been here two hours and I've been working steadily. I think it's time to take a break before I over-exert or something.

Especially since the A/C in our office suite doesn't seem to be working and a lot of what I'm doing today is pretty active.

I mean, I am sweating. Actually sweating. Is this why I put up with the low pay and high aggravations of a white-collar job? I think not.

The weekend was...uneventful. I spent a lot of time curled up and reading since it was cool and raining all weekend. Not rainy, but actually raining 95% of the time, which is extraordinarily unusual for Colorado in July.

Since the workweek started, of course, it's been hot and dry.

digression:

Read-receipts on e-mail are interesting. Someone tells you they've been "out of the office" for days and that's why they haven't given you some piece of information you urgently need...but you have a read-receipt that tells you they did, in fact, read the e-mail the same day you sent it.

I'm half-tempted to send this month's clients a note informing them that I'm going on a cruise next week and if they want their projects ready for them before I leave, they'd better start responding to my requests immediately. I have seven working days left (C-10!), which is enough time to get it all done, but only if the clients do their part. I cannot accomplish it all next Wednesday.)

/digression

HollandAmerica is a big fat cheat. I went online last night to book my shore excursions and their website was down, leaving only a note for us to all try back in a day or so. (The first person who tells me I shouldn't have waited until the last possible day gets it in the teeth.)

So, now the R.C. is pre-booked for everything we want to do and I'm going to have to suffer through stupid presentations. I'm a touch cranky about that but in my heart I know this is one of the perils of procrastination.

I have a handful of oddball chores I need to do.

I need to go to Ace Hardware and find some...well, some hardware to assemble some comment card attachments.

I need to hit the bank and make a deposit for the office.

I think I'll leave early today and do both of those. Then maybe I can get to the stuff I'm interested in getting done.

For instance, I need to go to the laundromat some day soon. I have so much over-sized (comforter, etc.) and bulk (2 sets of sheets, a dust ruffle, towels, rugs, and a bag o'clothes) to be laundered that I'll never get it done otherwise.

I need to spend two hours cross-referencing Word documents and spreadsheets so I can fix a mistake I made two weeks ago. I'm going to take that project to the laundromat with me and unless some wave of hopeless laziness comes over me in the next six hours, get it all done tonight.

I need to clean my bathroom because it's disgusting (I didn't get to it on Sunday) and also the kitchen floor.

I need to take six boxes o'unloved books to the library and donate them, whether the library wants them or not.

I can do both of those tomorrow.

I need to spend a lot less time reading fanfic and a lot more time maintaining my lifestyle in the evenings this week. After the orgy of reading I've been indulging in for the past week, things are starting to fall apart. (Well, okay. Some of that laundry has been waiting a bit longer than that.) I'd sort of forgotten how time-consuming fandom can be, even if you're just consuming and not producing. At this point, I'm hoping like heck I don't get the urge to write anything any time soon. I just don't have time to live in an alternate universe right now.