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When the earthquake hit a little after 8:00 last night, I was still working. That’s how pathetic my October has been. If I’d been reclining in my recliner, I might not have felt the room rumbling, but I was sitting at the computer, and the computer chair rolled a little. It wasn’t a huge quake, at least not here in the North Bay, but it lasted a good long time.
Anyway, tremors notwithstanding, I’m glad to be shed of this month. This week has been typically gruesome. I didn’t get the time cards from Tim until after 4:00 pm yesterday (and after the third time I’d called and asked him about them), so I was stuck doing payroll until nearly 9:30 last night.
And I didn’t get the sales tax information from Sanjay (I can’t remember if that’s what I called him before, but I’m happy with the pseudonym) until today. Since today is the deadline, that meant bringing the papers home from the post office, signing them and writing the check, and then taking the completed return back to the post office. That’s a lot of extra driving that I shouldn’t have had to do, and in the afternoon on Halloween, when you just don’t know what you’re going to find on the streets.
Everything I could do on my own this month, I did well within the parameters of the appropriate deadlines. Anything I had to depend on someone else’s input for, I barely scraped by on time.
But that’s all over now, and tomorrow starts a new and better month, which includes such attractions as Thanksgiving and jury duty. The closer we get to the end of the year, the more anxious I get about deadlines, but the things that had to be done by today got done, so I’ll allow myself to relax for a day or two before I start worrying again in earnest. |
