The long weekend of sleeping outside in plastic tents for Geisai for about 3 hours a day, plus the trip to Yamanakako right after with only 2 hours sleep (okay, an extra hour or so in the car. And of course that sleepless day of 10 hours work that same day topped off with what was suppose to be a meeting at the university for another few hours really had me…a bit worn.
While the above isn’t really related to the actual work I’m doing (that is so time-consuming) I’d like to repeat what was previously stated: I’m busy. I time-manage. Barely. And I’m back now, working at the ad agency while working with my personal work while working on a grad-work.
Here’s the ice-frosting on the time-cake –or– signs of obsessivity bordering to mad scientist-like yahooness:
I’ve created a monster.
My own time-managment software monster:
(…looks pretty innocent for a monster though)Getting slightly fed-up with scheduling in Excel (I’m not going anywhere near Microsoft Project. I heard PMs hate the thing) I made my own thing. The biggest nuance about Excel was that it actually stole time whenever I had to rearrange tasks. To put it in more ‘mad scientist -like manner: it didn’t map relations between tasks, and thus wouldn’t move stuff around coherently. It all had to be done manually – copying/pasting away precious time. Oh, preeecious.
Nor could it predict delays or automatically fill gaps. Or help when I were synching availability with other people – couldn’t see what could be moved around, schedule-wise, to fit dates that suited everyone trying to decide where to have a dinner after Geisai.