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Too Much to Do, Too Little Time
Jul. 24th, 2003 09:50 pmI know I say this alot lately, but "wow, it's been busy".
The last few days have been spent trying to get all the schedule changes done before Saturday when I have a massive (all day) meeting revolving around it. Sometimes, I wonder if I speak English, because I told everyone their final schedules were due on July 12, but every day I get 10-12 emails of changes. After the meeting this weekend though, they are all getting a "thanks so much, but if you want to change anything you better have a better reason than I just felt it would work better at this time". I mean it, a guest better have cancelled, or something if they want to change things at this point. I can't wait to see the "but we always got to change them before" emails.
I blew off scheduling for a while Tuesday evening and went out to the Border Pagans gathering, then to the Marrietta Diner after. Yes,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chalice66, I think it was around 4am when we headed home. Yikes! We did have some very interesting and thought provoking conversations though, which was an excellent distraction from the chaos that goes along with Dragon*Con.
I am feeling the pressure of time slipping out from under me. There's only five weeks until the convention and I am falling really behind. I haven't finished the artwork for the backstage pass, I haven't even started the artwork for the Dead Dog tickets, and I have art space in the Art Show, and absolutely nothing to put in that space. I have costumes to make (Persephone and Hades) for the Senior Director "Gods & Goddesses" theme night this year. I haven't written in days. I have printers I need to order, contractors to contact, and I haven't started on the Pocket Program.
All of my time is getting taken up with scheduling. The really frustrating thing is I feel like I am doing it all by myself. David keeps just putting stuff off, so I have been trying to take up the slack on that too. I need to contact the new signage director and help him get started with signage for the con. David, in his defense, does work at a job all day long, and I don't. I understand when he gets home he wants to unwind and play video games or whatever. However, I feel like he accepted this extracurricular volunteer position, and it's one that holds a certain level of responsibility. If he doesn't want the responsibility, and doesn't want to work on stuff when he gets home, then he shouldn't have taken the position.
Plus, as much as I hate to say it, because he and I are married, if things don't get done that are his responsibility, it reflects poorly on me. No, it shouldn't, but it truly does. People, in general, tend to look at married people as a whole rather than two separate individuals.
It's gotten to the point I can't sleep at night. (Yes, I had been sleeping a good 5-6 hours a night for a few months, which, for those of you that know me, know that's an incredible amount.) Now, though, I lay down in bed and the long list of things I have to do starts running in my head, along with the fact that time is running out. Sleeplessness just waiting to happen. I've even had a couple of mild panic attacks the last week or so, but I am loathed to take my Xanax unless it's a serious attack.
Don't get me wrong, I love the convention, and I love doing stuff for it, I think I am just feeling seriously pressured at the moment.
Here's the basis of the problem: I am a control freak; I take my responsibilities very seriously; I can't ask for help when I feel like I have brought things down on myself, or that something is my responsibility to handle.
In keeping with my attempts to take baby steps, however, some of you can expected phone calls pleading for help by the end of this weekend. That is, if I ever figure out how you can help.
The last few days have been spent trying to get all the schedule changes done before Saturday when I have a massive (all day) meeting revolving around it. Sometimes, I wonder if I speak English, because I told everyone their final schedules were due on July 12, but every day I get 10-12 emails of changes. After the meeting this weekend though, they are all getting a "thanks so much, but if you want to change anything you better have a better reason than I just felt it would work better at this time". I mean it, a guest better have cancelled, or something if they want to change things at this point. I can't wait to see the "but we always got to change them before" emails.
I blew off scheduling for a while Tuesday evening and went out to the Border Pagans gathering, then to the Marrietta Diner after. Yes,
chalice66, I think it was around 4am when we headed home. Yikes! We did have some very interesting and thought provoking conversations though, which was an excellent distraction from the chaos that goes along with Dragon*Con.I am feeling the pressure of time slipping out from under me. There's only five weeks until the convention and I am falling really behind. I haven't finished the artwork for the backstage pass, I haven't even started the artwork for the Dead Dog tickets, and I have art space in the Art Show, and absolutely nothing to put in that space. I have costumes to make (Persephone and Hades) for the Senior Director "Gods & Goddesses" theme night this year. I haven't written in days. I have printers I need to order, contractors to contact, and I haven't started on the Pocket Program.
All of my time is getting taken up with scheduling. The really frustrating thing is I feel like I am doing it all by myself. David keeps just putting stuff off, so I have been trying to take up the slack on that too. I need to contact the new signage director and help him get started with signage for the con. David, in his defense, does work at a job all day long, and I don't. I understand when he gets home he wants to unwind and play video games or whatever. However, I feel like he accepted this extracurricular volunteer position, and it's one that holds a certain level of responsibility. If he doesn't want the responsibility, and doesn't want to work on stuff when he gets home, then he shouldn't have taken the position.
Plus, as much as I hate to say it, because he and I are married, if things don't get done that are his responsibility, it reflects poorly on me. No, it shouldn't, but it truly does. People, in general, tend to look at married people as a whole rather than two separate individuals.
It's gotten to the point I can't sleep at night. (Yes, I had been sleeping a good 5-6 hours a night for a few months, which, for those of you that know me, know that's an incredible amount.) Now, though, I lay down in bed and the long list of things I have to do starts running in my head, along with the fact that time is running out. Sleeplessness just waiting to happen. I've even had a couple of mild panic attacks the last week or so, but I am loathed to take my Xanax unless it's a serious attack.
Don't get me wrong, I love the convention, and I love doing stuff for it, I think I am just feeling seriously pressured at the moment.
Here's the basis of the problem: I am a control freak; I take my responsibilities very seriously; I can't ask for help when I feel like I have brought things down on myself, or that something is my responsibility to handle.
In keeping with my attempts to take baby steps, however, some of you can expected phone calls pleading for help by the end of this weekend. That is, if I ever figure out how you can help.
