[Publib] Yesterday

[Fred Beisser]

This would have been a nice string of "tweets" on Twitter....

Fred Beisser
www.elbertcountylibrary.org
(Colorado)

Backwage at aol.com wrote:
> 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.
>  
> --------------------------- 
>  
> 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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