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[unicornduke]

 this day is taking FOREVER

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[unicornduke]

my main issue is that March is the least busy month for work: all the trial stuff from last year is already wrapped up, we finished our conference stuff a couple of weeks ago, summer stuff isn't happening yet and no one really wants to work on this year's trial preparation so I'm just fucking around on the internet.

I've mostly been trying to work on my field stuff because at least that is vaguely related to work when I'm in the same office as my boss. When I go to the north office, I can do whatever because I have my own little cubicle where no one can really get behind me.

Like, I'm trying at least a little bit of this year's stuff done but there's only so much I can push the specialists because they're still doing stuff.

So I spent today reading about cover crops, which I'm interested in but gets boring SO FAST.

why is time like this. And it seems like all my out of work time goes by so quick.

[dragonlady7]

That's my issue with work-- it's not so much a Slow Season for us (though it's not that busy), but that everything we have to do is kind of grinding boring work now. When there are a lot of orders to process you can let time fly by, but when you're like, going through catalogs to manually generate listings on different platforms for things, and then eBay's not letting you upload images so you have to work around it, and like.... ugh...
And a lot of it, I have to give myself a secondary task to stay focused, and since no one cares that much, I'll do something like embroidery or making hexagons or writing fic, and sometimes that works great-- while the database is loading, I sew a little, or whatever-- but sometimes it works terribly and I look up and realize I've been sewing for 20 minutes and the database loaded 19.5 minutes ago and just timed out on me.

What gets me, super hard, is what you said, though, where I spend the vast majority of my coherent waking hours sitting in a room I dislike doing unimportant tasks, and then when I'm at home I have so much I need to do that I wind up sort of paralyzed by indecision until I'm too tired to do any of it, and then the next day I'm trapped in this little room again thinking about all the shit I need to do until I am too tired and frazzled to do it! It's amazing!