Home Stretch
The few weeks leading up to Christmas are usually a sluggish crawl to the holidays from my experience, but the office is determined to squeeze every last bit of effort and willpower out of everyone before we shut down for the new year.
I’m not complaining, even though it might sound like I am—my gears just need a little bit of re-adjusting as it's used to grinding to a halt this time of year.
I’m currently working on a big presentation for one of our teams, which I only found out about a week ago, and which should be done and ready to present by next week.
This gives me only two weeks to work on understanding the messaging, gathering the data, and making the deck presentable, which is not normally a problem given how fast I work but the amount of data processing and formatting involved I didn’t quite anticipate. Best believe your bestie is stressed.
I actually had to put my own project on the backburner for now to make way for this, which doesn’t make me happy at all given how many times I’ve already put it on hold in favor of more urgent matters. I’m lucky my manager understands.
Save for this, the only things standing between me and the holiday break is a playbook presentation, a meeting about a town hall in January, a meeting with Champions for our new internal communications platform, plus some re-occurring meetings next week.
I'm excited to wrap everything up, burrow under heavy blanket sheets, and rot in bed for two weeks before the new year rolls in. 😮💨