Oy

whatta day. For reasons that I won’t get into here on a public forum (use your very creative imaginations), I did not get much sleep last night. And my entire building at work is being moved to another building tomorrow, so our offices have to be packed up (I have arranged for for movers to come move my treadmill to my new office – the official corporate movers will do it but  I kinda don’t trust them as they’re moving 600 or so people over the weekend.)

And my team has been pushing really hard for something we’re shipping that we need to hand off ( which we did at midnight last night – yippee!) and although I have told the folks around me that my team is on top of it and on schedule, they’ve been ultra paranoid and hovering for the last few days and it’s been difficult not to snap at them. I have been mostly successful at that but I’m not a fan of the hovering. (They mostly stand outside my office and look in the window and look forlorn until I respond.)

I’m blogging in the 5 minutes in between meetings today. It’s taking a while. Sigh.

So, my point is, I am exhausted, there’s a lot going on at work and I’m sucking down the strong black tea that gets me all hopped up which is not hopping me today. And I have a new Twitter buddy who’s heckling me from afar. She knows not what she’s getting herself into…teehee.

But the good news is that I’m on vacation starting tomorrow. One of the big highlights of working for a large corporate enterprise is paid vacation! Every time I take time off, I do the happy dance cause I’m still getting paid. After working on my own for so long, it’s something I seriously appreciate. Of course, because we have a Dec. 3 ship date, I’ll be checking in to triage bugs ‘n other fun software factory stuff. But that’s my choice cause I’m diligent, you see.

I’m flying to NYC tomorrow at an ungodly hour, checking into the W on Lex and hanging with my friends all weekend before I face the family in the burbs and CT. I heart my family and all (and my brother’s getting married the day after Thanksgiving), but they’re a little exhausting.

Weather for NYC is COLD! But Thanksgiving is a great time to be there. It’s one of my favorite times of NYC year. (I try to avoid summer & the whole “odor du hot urine” in the subways.)

Once I’m done with the family stuff, I head to Paris for work. I heart Paris. I don’t have much time to play there, but I’m going to try to spend some time with a friend (that’s right – I have a Parisian friend. Doubters!) and wander around and take some pix to add to my collection (heh – I typed smutmug.com rather than smugmug.com just now. Now that’s funny.).

Anyhoo, I’ll be posting from NY and Paris about whatever adventures I have. Stay tuned!