Monday, April 6, 2014 

H. called last night. H. is a colleague who calls with problems he needs solved. He is often ill and unable to complete the assignments he has been given and at the 11th hour, I often get a call to pull him out of the water. This would not have been so bad if another client asked me to write up some questions and fit them into a complicated Excel file (I don’t do Excel!). Unfortunately, she could not explain the process to me because she had laryngitis. Oh my! 

But this morning, I figured out how to help H without killing myself and him in the process. Downloaded a bunch of abstracts and will make them fit his template and needs. Concentrating, writing, concentrating writing… Racing to get work done and keeping the dogs quite before… 

Sandy! 

Too late. Fix that last sentence. Add a place marker. Supervise mom in the bathroom, get mom in the shower, make her breakfast, sit her down, make tea for myself (was too busy trying to squeeze work in), don’t answer the darned phone, keep the dogs at bay (they have already been walked and fed), resume work. Be back in a bit… maybe!