Blogging from work

This is my first full week back in the workforce and I gotta say that I'm exhausted! The job I am currently doing is managing an academic journal on East Asian culture. Last year I worked on a journal with 4 employees and one editor in chief. On average we would have about 80 manuscripts out for review at any one time.

In this job it is only me and the editor-in-chief. We currently have over 200 active manuscripts out for review. So in sum, it is a TON of work! The past managing editor got overwhelmed and started letting everything slide before she just quit so I'm playing catch up. On top of that, the journal is moving from University of Washington to Rice so all week long I am trying to catch up on the manuscripts I have while new boxes of manuscripts are coming to the door.

Eek! I am going back and forth from being at peace and liking the job to being freaked out that we are so far behind and I don't really have any help.

I am still working part time at Pier 1. I took shifts every day this weekend since Chris is out of town. He left this afternoon to go to Memphis to present the research he did this summer.

Chris took my laptop since his monitor decided it wanted to not work this week so I'll be taking it to Best Buy (still under warranty...yay!) on Saturday after work to get it repaired.

I'm looking forward to getting a day off next week!

On a more random note, we voted this morning. I love voting.