Bah

I am migraney and pukey and typing an entry here instead of whittling down the piles of work on my desk.  But it is after 5 p.m. and I only took half of my lunch today and I've been here until 6.30 the last two nights and I am the boss.  So while normally it is unwise to admit to blogging on the company dime, the company has gotten more than a dollar's worth of work out of me this week, so a dime it can spare.

And just now, I got interrupted to do even more work, so I really cannot win.  I am tired and hot and griping a whole lot, but it is weeks like this, where everything happens at once and I am both incredibly behind in some areas while being ahead of the game in others ... it's weeks like this that remind me why I am doing this work in the first place.

I'm trying to be a good boss.  I'm naturally bossy and controlling, which --shockingly-- are not qualities that conducive to supervising people, I am learning.  I am learning so much about being diplomatic and politic, while protecting the best interests of the people I supervise.  It's a constant balancing act and I am so grateful that I have some really fantastic (and female!) role models to learn from.