Things are heading in the right direction!

Lena’s like my new best friend.  When she comes in in the morning, she smiles. And she went out of her way to ask me to have a good evening. Seriously. This is an improvement.

We had a meeting yesterday and went through the submissions she’s got coming up which were pretty full-on, to be honest.  She’s not quite as organised as I would like so it was difficult to figure out what submission was at what stage so I suggested we build a proper log where we could track and monitor things.  I’ve been working on that the past week while she works on getting the submission done this week which I’ve asked to check before it goes out.

I’m feeling weird about it all, though.  Like I’ve gone behind my bosses back. Am I being paranoid? 

Unfortunately, when I wrote last week I forgot that Jeremy was going to be away for our Monday meeting this week and I didn’t really want to open the Can O’ Worms on the submissions and Lena’s workload without him.  Still, Telepathic Kate asked me if everything was okay with the sort of expression that implied she knows things might not.

While I was kind of desperate to tell her what had been going on – just to get it off my chest if anything – I said everything was fine and felt guilty instead. Still, if things improve over the next week with Lena, then the suggestions I’d like to make about the submissions may be better received.  Fingers crossed.

In my day-to-day stuff, things have been quieter as Jeremy’s been away in Scotland since Monday doing some intensive work with one of our higher-profile clients.  Thinking about it,  I’ve always had an irrational fear of organising travel before all this – whether it’s booking train tickets to Bournemouth or a flight to Abu Dhabi, I always get burning angst when I press ‘Buy’ that I’m ordering them on the wrong day or the time’s in 12h rather than 24h clock.  There’s always a faint slick of sweat on my mouse when I’ve finished, I can tell you.

But when I organised Jeremy’s flights and pick-up to Glasgow, I was so distracted by the stuff going on with Lena that I pressed ‘Buy’, prepared the itinerary and collating the travel pack without so much as batting an eyelid!  In fact, I’d say that organising travel without being a sweaty freak-pot has quickly become one of my favourite things to do at work!  Every cloud and all that, I suppose!

In other news: one of the friendlier designers is having birthday drinks after work on Friday and has invited me along.  I actually, for more reasons than one, cannot wait...