I got sunshine on a cloudy day

[rolanni]

Tips for supervising secretaries: If you don't want to make the phone call, because you think there's something a little iffy in the proposition, telling your secretary to make the phone call instead is. . .just tacky. Your secretary is not your bullet-proof vest. Also? Your secretary remembers things. Often at inconvenient to you moments. Just sayin'.

Today was the day of the Annual Mammogram, so that was accomplished after work (You've had yours, right? Or scheduled it? If not, go make the appointment. Yes, NOW. I'll wait.).

At home, I made bread, created some small islands of less-than-chaos amid the over-arching disorder, and spent some quality time with Mozart. I did not read George. I did not write. Bad author; no biscuit.

This is not to say that nothing related to writing went forth on the day. The contract for Dragon Ship, George, and Trade Secret arrived, so some bit of time was spent going over it, initialing, signing, and whatnot. That's in an envelope to go back to Madame the Agent tomorrow; also packed up for tomorrow's mail, the corrected pages of Saltation, the mass market edition.

Tomorrow. . .tomorrow comes the counselor, I believe sheorhe is called, from the CPAP provider, who will situate my machine, and teach me its proper care and feeding.

...and the hits just keep on coming.

I hope everyone had a lovely and prosperous Monday. Remember, the week can only get better from here.

Comments

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

This reminds me... at one company, there was I believe an executive secretary? Anyway, there was some difficulty, and she was called in to explain. Whereupon she laid out the history of the incident (from a year and half before?) in detail. Which did not match what the executive had been trying to claim. When the executive who was thus shown to be in the wrong blustered about how could she possibly remember all that, she must be wrong, she went to her desk and brought back her journal -- where she carefully recorded every detail of every day. As I remember the president of the company gave her a bonus for that.

[dmellieon.livejournal.com]

I believe and practice CYA. Having worked computer support in both the commercial world and currently as a military contractor I learned early to document everything you do. You never know what or more importantly who may come back to bite you.