You get used to it ... eventually

As always, taking on a new role leads to complete exhaustion while my brain gets used to thinking in new patterns. I'm pretty excited about being one of the TUAW leads, and yesterday was my first day. I'm slowly getting everything beaten down into a system and instilling some organization that is going to help a lot. Thankfully, the skills I honed with Namesake are coming in handy here.

I was so engrossed in my work and another freelance job that at 3:57 p.m., I happened to glance at my iMac's clock.

Inner Me: Huh. Good thing I have another hour before work.
Other Inner Me: Except you don't, stupid. You're doing A1 today, not A3.

In layman's terms, I'd spent the entire week thinking I had to be at work at 5 p.m. on Wednesday when really I had to be in at 4.

Cue panic.

There is a very good reason I live just a half mile from work, and this is why! I shot out of my chair, grateful that for once I didn't put off showering and dressing until later, grabbed my laptop, charger, mouse, wallet and phone, shoved everything into my backpack, sped at 40 mph down the street and sprinted into the building. I made it to work at 4:02 p.m. just in time to grab a seat for the meeting.

Then there's this morning, when I accidentally managed to crash TUAW's content-management system trying to fix an error I made in scheduling. The editor-in-chief was fixing it at the same time and the CMS was not happy with us and is no longer working. Hurray, I broke the system and it only took two days!

My post icon is very appropriate.