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September 06, 2004

EFFICIENCY MODE

Teresa thinks I'm sad. I'm not sad. Jenny thinks I'm hard on myself. I may be hard on myself... but let me explain something. I have gone into EFFICIENCY MODE (thank you Ellynne for the name since I had never been able to put this into words). I'm one of those people who is great at handling something at the last minute and great and getting work done under a tight deadline, but when that happens I go into EFFICIENCY MODE (yes it has to be in caps). That means I try to be polite and end up sounding curt because I don't have time for chit chat and I don't have time to screw around because I am so, completely focused on the things I have to do that I can't talk or think about anything else. So, since I now have 2 days to mail a submission to IK if I want to do so and exactly 14 days to finish my stole and all of the preparations for my wedding (don't have a photographer or a band or about a million little things yet) and I have a thousand things to do for my "real job" plus I have bronchitis as the cherry on top, I have gone into LEVEL 5, CODE RED, HARDCORE EFFICIENCY MODE. It's kind of hard to explain, but maybe some of you have a similar thing? Anyone? Please? Tell me that I'm not just a bitch and all alone in this? In any case, you all will have to bear with me because this is just part of the mish-mash of faults and qualities that makes a Kate.

So here is the rundown of my work accomplished:

To do list for today:

By the way, I forgot to tell you all a while back that I saw Teresa when she was in Paris. It was the night before I left for Austria so I didn't post about it (being in pre-trip efficiency mode and all). Thankfully, she did.

Posted by kate at September 6, 2004 11:30 AM