Time really flies

I have been so busy with my life and work lately. Well......even more busy than I was before. I have fully fallen into my role as the lab manager and resourcing/scheduling along with a few other big projects to run up my sleeve. I'm still trying to keep up with my gym as well as read allllllllllll the books I bought and finish my quilling project whilst keeping up with my friends.

Because I have been so busy with work and wanting to meet alot of the deadlines 2 weeks ahead of my schedule so I can go on my holidays in peace, I skipped training last tuesday.....and part of the training the week before :X So I rock up to class today only to find out that this is our very last class. FOREVER! No more tutes, no pracs, no more boring lectures. We didnt even have to stay til 9pm tonight. Class was basically 9-5, and to celebrate, we hit the bar. The entire class went to the Art house afterwars (I think we were inspired by the lecturer's words of "I'll shout"). But in the 2 hours at the bar, I learnt more about my class mates then in the 4 months I spent with them. I mean I can probably put it down to a few things.

1. After a 12hour class, I am not about to stick around to chat
2. Since its a 12 hour day, I'd rather get stuck into the work, get it over and done with and go home
3. If we don't have a full day class, we tend to have work from 8:30-5, then class from 6-9. Again, I JUST WANNA GET MY ASS OUT OF THERE!

However, today I really regreted that I didn't get to spend more time chatting with them and getting to know them in class. Not only are they really nice and fascinating people, but just learning from their experiences from work made a huge difference for me. For me, I basically got this job once I graduated from uni and I haven't had any other IT experience. Talking to all these people from the same industry but dong completely different things totally fascinated me. Too bad I won't see any of them until the exam, and chances are I'll be too busy cramming (As usual) to talk to them.

Our company is organising a Tester's network/function to get all the people in the industry together and I would definetly love to invite them and catch up. I can't believe my course is almost over!! I only have the exam left, a private project for me to complete in my own time as well as a workplace assessment and I'm done! I will have my tuesday nights free again! I used to have belly dancing every tuesday night, but my Teacher has moved to Cairns to live until January and we have one of the girls taking over her classes. Some of you may remember her since she did the veil dance with me. But yeah......chances are I won't be going back to belly dancing until next year. Which will give me a nice break on Tuesdays.

I so can't wait for my holiday. I'm so tired and stressed from work. It feels like I'm being pulled in a million directions. Although my workload has doubled, it feels like my productivity has dropped by 50% Why? I have too much things to do and not being able to focus on one thing at a time. I would sit down and try to review a 30page document, and that would take me up to 4-6hours to do because my phone will ring, emails will flood my inbox (And not the friendly spamming type that I do alot), the other people will have questions or problems that will drag me away from my desk, I have meetings non stop and when I don't get dragged into meetings, I end up initiating them. Inbetween all that, I still have to do my 8hours of deliverable work. ARGH! I'm basically trying to cram 2 days worth of work into one day so I can still make it to the gym. Thats probably the only thing keeping me sane. I used to be able to just do a class and totally forget work, go home, shower and then sleep. Now I'm starting to notice that all these work problems creep into my mind during a class. I'm sick of it. I need more money. I need a promotion. And I need my holiday. I'll see you soon moishii!! Miss you so much!! >_< *HuggLeS*