10/18/07

Hello… I still exist. I fell ill on Wednesdnight last week, so I didn’t go to work or school on Thursday or Friday. I didn’t do much at home other than play games too. And this week at work, I’ve been in all day meetings every day. That kind of worked out because the Help Desk hosed my computer while trying to back it up, so they had to restore the data and reinstall everything while I attended the meetings. That’s left me quite unproductive at work lately as well as unable to update here. There hasn’t been much to write about anyway, but I’m still here.

The meetings this week are regarding the development and integration of a new financial system for our Asia-Pacific segment of the company. They have been doing everything in Excel, Word, and Access, so they need a real system in order to continue to grow without adding a lot of overhead with all of the manual processes needed to invoice clients and reimburse employees. If I’ve mentioned that before, sorry, I’m not bothering to go back to see what I have or have not written about lately.

I’m involved in this project because I am going to be responsible for the enhancment and integration of our time and expense front-end system with the new back-end accounting system that is going to handle the invoicing and all with localization in the appropriate languages. I have experience from bringing our European offices on-line with it, so I’m on board for this too. Luckily, it doesn’t require any travel, just mind-numbing hours upon hours of meetings. Whatever, I can pretend to feel important because of it by describing it that way until I start to comteplate my resignation by the end of it.

I left school in quite the funk tonight too. I screwed up another quiz after I was so hopefull that I was turning things around with a 100% on the previous quiz too. I also received a letter from the school asking me to seek counselling regarding my current grade because I am in danger of needing to withdraw. It is so unbelievably discouraging, but I know that I don’t really need to worry unless I bomb next week’s test too. What’s most painful is that I really enjoy learning this stuff. But it always seems to be that I do the worst while learning in the subjects I enjoy the most. Having the very thing you love be the source of so much pain/frustration is so unbelievably depressing. Isn’t that what I always end up writing about?

I have to go try doing some stuff to de-stress before I lose my mind over it all.