Work was good today. It’s not as busy as it will be on Tuesday, so I was able to continue getting used to the whole thing. It’s amazing how much easier it all is when I stop trying to live up to the ridiculous expectations of perfection that I have a tendancy to hold myself to. Temps aren’t expected to be perfect.
I realized today why people had such high expectations for the “paperless office.” So much of the paper shuffling we do is really not needed if computers were used for more of it. I wonder how much of the world is still lagging in efficiency like this. Probably lots.
That’s what I need to do with my life, become an efficiency expert!
Then again, me and half those people in the office wouldn’t have a job anymore if that happened. Maybe efficiency isn’t everything.
And I don’t know what I’m talking about anyway, I’m just The Temp.
Work ended around 3:30, apparently they have less work for us to do on Fridays. I asked if it was possible for me to just hang around the office and read until Michael could pick me up at 5. The supervisor didn’t have a problem with it, but then a woman I had been working with all day offered me a ride home since she lives near me. Yay! I got to talk with her on the ride home, turns out she’s a really cool woman, and despite hating computers (because she’s worked on one everyday for over a decade), she told me that her husband uses Suse at home, and that’s the computer she checks her email on and things. Neat! She’s casually used linux for over 5 years, starting with Red Hat. See, linux isn’t such a bad desktop for casual computer users.
Since I got home early I decided to do some cleaning. Had the place mopped and vacuumed by the time Michael got home around 5. Feels so much nicer being in a clean house.
I definately need to get at least 8 hours of sleep per night though. I worked all day and I’m still wide awake right now, but yesterday I was just exhausted.