Posted by fallsfall on March 29, 2004, at 19:46:31
In reply to Re: Looking a little better, posted by gardenergirl on March 29, 2004, at 0:16:12
Well, at least the kids' fiction is done.
My boss called this morning at 10AM to ask if we really had to do it today, or if it could wait. I told him we had to do it today. He came in for a couple of hours, and the children's librarian came in for a couple of hours. And I put in 3 1/2 hours and was able to complete the stuff that had to be done today. Yeah! There is still a ton of paperwork, but at least we can open with reasonable assurance that we pretty much know what we have and what we don't have. That makes me feel better.
I'm exhausted. I've worked 21 hours in the last 5 days. Usually I work 10 hours in 7 days - and sometimes that feels like a lot.
I saw my therapist today (before I went to work - I took a nap in between). He stated the obvious - "your reaction is way out of proportion to the situation". He asked if I thought that I unconsciously sabatoged the project. I don't think so. I think that next time I'll ask him if he really thinks I did, or if that is a standard question so he can see how I react to it. I can't imagine that I would even unconsciously put the library and my fellow librarians through that just to prove that I'm incompetent.
I asked him if I should have called him on Sunday. He said that it seemed like I had friends who were very able and willing to help me, so he didn't see why he would need to get involved. It was one of those "if you can handle things with your support structure, then you don't need to bother your therapist", or rather, "it is Better to get support from the real world, than from your therpist." He didn't say that I *couldn't* have called him, just that it seemed that I found a way to deal with the issue. I do think that he went kind of easy on me today because he knew that I still had to go to work to finish up.
I see him again tomorrow. I'm hoping he'll have something more enlightening to say tomorrow. We really didn't talk about how to make this less likely to happen in the future.
So thankyou, my Babble friends. You are beginning to win him over!
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