Do you ever have moments when you are looking at teetering piles of stuff all over your desk, and multiple people are demanding you make Project X, Y, or Z your main priority, and you're so overwhelmed you just can't pick something to start on? That seems to be the main theme of my life this month. I can't seem to break any of these things down into manageable bites, so it's easier to ignore it and do stupid stuff like delete old e-mails. At the same time, I realize full well that if I don't do what everyone wants when they want it, people are not going to die, puppies will not be tortured, illnesses will not spread, subways and buses will not stop running, science and progress will continue. A couple of clients might get annoyed, and my bosses may get a bit upset, but they also know I'm straddling two departments and being deluged with work at the moment. So the consequences of my inability to accomplish anything productive are not really motivating me either. And then I start thinking that maybe I need to find more meaningful work, instead of laboring endlessly over documents that will essentially be shelved as proof of some faceless government agency's compliance with certain laws, and never read except by the extremely few other people with jobs similar to mine. And pondering the relative meaning of my work, and whether it is the best use of my time and talents, is just a train of thought that runs in circles on an eternal track, it seems.
Maybe this means it's time for lunch?
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