Five A.M. does not agree with me. Not that I had be at work earlier than normal but I wanted to catch up on stuff and make sure I stayed caught up. That meant going into work an hour earlier and leaving about an hour later. All this because the girl I work for was on vacation and, unfortunately, the work doesn’t stop when she leaves. For anyone interested, I do underwriting. I stop short of calling myself an underwriter because I don’t officially have that title yet but I’m working on it. For anyone that doesn’t know what underwriting is, it’s writing insurance. Now calm down. I know it’s exciting. What can I say? I went in to interview for an accounting position and they wanted me for underwriting. I’m not about to pass up a better paying job.

The thing is, the girl I work for has the heaviest work load in the department so I had to do something so I wouldn’t get buried. It’s a situation like this where my organizational skills work against me because I want to stay organized and on top of everything all the time and it’s quite literally impossible in this job, there’s just so much. So reforming my work habits are going to have to come into play at some point.

Anyway, I’m normally up at 6. This week I was up at 5. No more. I can do 5:30 (which is really 5:45, thanks snooze) but barely. I’m normally home around 5:30. Most days it was about quarter after 6 (less traffic later in the evening, less travel time). That equaled me wanting to go to sleep at 8:30, 9 o’clock. My regular writing time is between 8 and 11 Monday through Thursday nights. As you’ve probably figured out, not much writing got done.

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