Ever elusive routine and order March 30, 2008

  The past week the burden of my work responsibilities hit me like cold water in the face. It was so easy to forget about certain tasks the last month,  not to speak of doing more than the bare minimum. It was a fairly productive week in the sense that I finally got our request for a renewal of the building permit for the hospital, as well as a new request for a permit for building the maintenance building, handed in to the Municipal Council. The process was accompanied by quite a lot of grousing from my side – for example, I needed to borrow a car, take the surveyor out to Woodrows and have him make some measurements which, according to me, have already been made and entered on an official document, and then he said yes, I could come and get the docs from him the next morning (I had another appointment). The next morning, however, he wasn’t there, and I had to phone and arrange with him for another time to get our documents that I thought he, as a humble council employee, was supposed to have handed in, not kept on his person! The final day involved a lot of waiting at the copy place, first for a copy of the latest document and, only afterwards, to get the proposals bound (because I guess nobody could have mentioned that to me any of the 6 times I was there. Sorry, will stop moaning now.) On Thursday it was once again time for payroll, and since Dr Woodrow and I filled everything in for March and April, to make things as easy as possible during his absence, it was a very long day, but I’m glad it’s all done. I now have a very long to-do list and leave for South Africa myself in less than a month, Lord willing. May April be a more productive month than March! The Woodrows are planning on leaving this Tuesday or Wednesday (1st or 2nd of April) and will only return somewhere around the 25th of May. I wish them a wonderful time in South Africa, but the last few months have definitely been up and down and full of small frustrations and interruptions of any kind of work schedule!