Writing is like an addiction. Send me to Betty Ford, I guess.

I think I'm starting to lean toward the sucking my thumb in the corner vision of what this job might do to me.

(seriously, I *KNOW* it will be OK- so take all of this with a grain of salt, OK?)

I *JUST* got my mind wrapped around one project- enough to understand what needs to be done before we roll out this big change to our organization- one that will need communication to our customers, our business partners, and our company. I'm responsible for those communications. This will include brochures (eek! I've never made brochures- and trust me... my company is large enough that they need to be professional), newspaper articles, internal communications, job aids and the like.

I felt on top of my game yesterday afternoon. I finally understood what this project meant and what it would do.

Then at about 2:30, I got a call from one of the executives asking me to help him with another project that is very low on my totem pole, but apparently high on his. The long and short of it is that he asked me to go through almost 600 pages of information and pull out the highlights for a brochure that he's working on. I said, (with my head in my hands) when do you need this by? He said "tomorrow".



I laughed, because I thought he was joking. He stopped me before I started really getting into a good belly laugh, saying, "I'm serious". I couldn't even read the stuff on the train home, because of the confidential nature- so I rode the train and stewed about it.

Not 15 minutes after hanging up with him, our division executive asked me if I would write his bio for a organization he's trying to get into. He gave me his resume (impressive, very impressive) to work from.

Have I ever written anyone's bio? Nope. Do I really know enough this line of work to pull out the important stuff? I didn't think so.

My manager told me to not sweat it too much. She said he has a huge ego, so make it supersized and be prepared for him to change it.

I got a email from him last night at 8ish, thanking me for the quick turnaround and he was going to use my first draft. He liked it.

Phew!

OK, now on to reading the honkin stack of documentation for project number 2 (or 1, depending on who you ask). I'll write more tonight (I'm visiting the neurologist today) and I'll respond to comments from yesterday.

No time right now!

::runs off with her hair on fire::