Money Trouble
I’ve been tasked with sorting out the organisational budget for the whole of the next three years. I’ve already done half of it, because I was given a three day deadline by a large and influential donor. I spent days crouched over my laptop tapping astronomical numbers into excel, cross checking them, and howling ‘Gaaaaaaaaah, SHIT. Now I have to start all over again.’ No-one ever appreciated the depth of the trauma I suffered at the hands of my maths homework every single week of my pre-A-level life. Likewise, no-one will appreciate the horror I am now fearfully contemplating. I am so misunderstood.
Anyway, now it’s time to do the other half. My boss asked me on Monday if I would be able to produce something by the end of the week, so of course I’ve been spending every waking hour between then and now resizing photos for the organisation’s lovely new website, of which I am in charge, composing funky website copy, writing to-do lists, trying to think of witty and fascinating blog posts, making cups of tea, and attempting to block out the bilge washing around my ears that these days passes for office banter (I do this by repeating the words ‘Yes’, ‘No’ and ‘What?’ in that order in the hope that one day it will become obvious that I’m not listening).
Now I have an hour in which to do a month’s work. Which is obviously why I’m writing this.
Desperate times, people. Desperate times.
Lordy, I wish I could get hold of some jaffa cakes.
August 3rd, 2006 at 4:04 pm
silly silly girl. why do you always insist on doing your homework at the last minute??! it’s like band aid all over again..
August 3rd, 2006 at 4:18 pm
Hoping to be saved by the apocryphal blog time-reversal phenomenon? Wish I could help, but I suppose there’s no time for that now. Best of luck!
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:10 pm
Yes, but Mel, the difference is that with the Band Aid thing I at least knew what the fuck I was doing.
Bill - that would be a marvellous invention. Why does it not exist?
August 3rd, 2006 at 9:38 pm
Similar feelings about jaffa cakes once led me to http://www.uk-groceries.com where I discovered them - and they’ll post them to Jamaica! However, practical thoughts about how stale they might be when they got here aside, the fact that while the jaffas would cost me GBP 3.99, the postage was looking at being GBP 22.99, made me quickly get rid of that idea.
August 4th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
Brilliant - I must admit, my heart leapt when you said you could order them. I’d eat them stale, mouldy, growing limbs, speaking in tongues, whatever. Mind you, like you I’m not prepared to fork out 22 quid for them. Dang.
August 4th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
I believe the time-reversal device exists, but is being kept under cover by the US military in an office on the sixth side of the Pentagon. Related technologies not only reverse time, but suspend the usual laws of physics and other inconvenient “realities.” I have heard, but cannot confirm, that this group will be the subject of Dan Brown’s next novel.
I’m pleased to see that you’re devoting your personal funds to the pretty shoe escrow rather than the fleeting thrill of jaffa cakes.
August 5th, 2006 at 6:43 pm
try this. that critic giles wotsit did it on gordan ramsay’s f word last week.. home cooking?? it was enormous..mxxx
http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/project.php?projectID=174
August 10th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
Hmmm yes, I feel your pain. Here am I, reading an old blog post about a job that has presumably been done long ago, writing a copletely pointless reply… and why? Because I am avoiding doing what I’m supposed to be doing.
I’m sick of novel-writing. I’ve decided to give it up and be a biscuit engineer instead. I’m going to design the perfect biscuit.
What do you reckon to a thing that was a bit like a jaffa cake, but had black jelly baby stuff instead of smashing orangey bit, and ice cream wafer instead of spongey bit? Posh ice cream wafer. Or maybe Fox’s crunch cream, without the cream. I can’t decide.