[Publib] Yesterday

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What I did yesterday:
 
0600:  Got to work.  This is a half hour early.   Answered emails.  Ate 
some yogurt.  
0630:  Began rewriting a collective bargaining agreement.   Reduced text 
from sixty to four pages with severe editing and elimination of  duplicative 
passages.  Constructed some novel provisions; updated the thing  according to 
the requirements of new laws.  This entails significant  Internet and 
print-copy research.  
0650:  Took phone call from union leader who opposes our version of  the 
new contract.  Liberal use of curse words to describe our  efforts.  
0730: Took phone call from management-side guy who believes our effort to  
revise agreement shows we are tool of Satan.  He offers no other  
suggestions.
0800:  Boss emails first of many articles and pieces of correspondence  I 
must edit on the fly throughout the day.  These range from mere notes to  
lengthy reports requiring additional research.  
0900:  Start writing [in the midst of other assignments] a speech to  be 
given before an environmental group on green trends in construction.   Keep 
switching back to collective bargaining agreement previously  mentioned.
0930:  Research changes in California insurance law so as to include a  
business insurance provision in the agreement I'm rewriting.  
1000:  Reply to state official regarding wage survey to be conducted  soon. 
 Forward wage survey materials via email to 250 contractors,  including 
instructions.
1030:  Explain break provisions in state wage law to a visitor while  
continuing work.
1045:  Begin search for working restroom.  Our building is being  renovated 
and nobody remembered that ordinary people have to go  occasionally.  Find 
working restroom.  Use same.  Discover that  our floor is the only one 
without hot water. 
1100:  Write and send request to federal government for recognition of  our 
test/training regime.  Eat "lunch" at desk--a hard boiled egg and a  
chocolate diet drink.  Sneak out to my car for a half-hour nap.   During nap a 
union official knocks on window to ask if I know whether the new  contract has 
been negotiated.  
Noon:  Give up on nap, return to office where phone messages await on  
various subjects.  Review homework/final exams of five coworkers who are  
attending college.  Try to introduce the concepts of the sentence and  paragraph 
to these people.
Throughout the day:  receive visits from various people wishing  
clarification on various subjects.  Alas, I am the guru of union contracts,  labor 
law, growing of orchids, finding ex-husbands.  
Noon-thirty:  Write quick analysis of federal domestic origin laws for  a 
colleague who is about to make a speech on the subject in faraway  Chicago.  
He receives material on cell phone screen and sends back  thanks.  
1300:  Writing on previous subjects.  Brief visit to use the hot  water, et 
cetera, in the working bathroom.  While there, get trapped by  people 
asking questions about various things.   
1330: Visit from colleague who wishes to know if there are any stimulus  
projects pending in California.  We go to online site, provide information  on 
a few hundred of these via email, then return to other work.
1400:  Receive call from friend who informs me that one of my dogs has  
messed on the carpet.  Twice.  I call home and leave message for dogs  on 
recorder:  "Bad dogs!  Wait till I'm home!"
1400-1530:  Writing like mad on main projects.  Eyes begin to  wiggle.  
Time to go home.  Last item handled:  Question as to  what the average hourly 
wage rate is for air conditioning technicians working  for service and repair 
firms in western states.  
 
Home:  Discover that neither dog will own up to the "mess."  Walk  dogs 
while making phone calls to colleagues.  Ride exercise bike for an  hour while 
continuing calls.
 
1730:  Answer emails from work.  Some of these are responses to  
writing/research submitted earlier in the day.  Listen to Dodger game while  doing 
more writing for work.  Eat dinner (a piece of cheese, two crackers  and a 
handful of peanuts) while typing.  
 
Nine in the evening:  Turn off computer.  Read a little  bit.  Fall asleep 
with dogs.
 
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I really love this job.  Going back and forth furiously from one task  to 
another makes the day fly by like the horses on a carousel.  [Somewhere  in 
all this I read three newspapers and ordered a pair of shoes online.]   It is 
very nice to have people rely on you.  Even if they knock on your car  
window to wake you from a nap.  But I'm going to have to cut back on the  green 
tea until they get the men's room restored to our floor.  
 
M. M. 
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