Pass me a mallet, please...

...I feel like I'm continuously playing a heinous, virtual, larger than life game of whac-a-mole. Thwack! As soon as I manage to finish one project, something else comes up. Thwack! I literally had to put my phone on "do not disturb" and turn my email autoresponder on this week, which says that "I am working on a big project this week and therefore there may be a delay in responding, thanks for your patience", etc etc. Which is true, obviously, but egad!!!

We had a staff meeting with my Executive Director last week, in order to lay out for him the 14 projects we have to do in the next 10 days. We managed to put them in an urgency vs. impact priority list, then had to call the various programs chairs to explain why their particular project has to wait a little while. Needless to say, nobody's happy. The worst thing - this is not unusual. I can't see this situation changing any time soon. We even said we'd review the "running projects list" every week from now on to add stuff on and take the finished ones off.

I need more staff!! I can't do this all by myself. David, my admin, is very well-meaning, but he's only been here a little while.

One silver lining - I've been given the green light to try and hire a student marketing assistant from American University (which is a stone's throw from our office). Now, if I could only find ten minutes to find out who over there to talk to about placing an ad... ah well, just one more thing on the to do list. If anyone knows someone or has any suggestions, please let me know. I'm not asking in any official capacity, I should advertise this properly through "channels" or whatever, and I will, but seeing as I'm trying to catch my breath for five minutes and having a little tiny bit of "me time" feeling sorry for myself here, I figured I might as well ask you guys. : ) I do wonder sometimes what would happen if I got hit by a bus...

Right - ten minute lunch break over - must get back to whacking my moles (or something).