Frustrated…

I’m frustrated…

 

I was going to write a blog post for HireMe.WordWhisperer.net this morning in my rare spare time, but the system won’t let me in to add a blog. It returns a “fatal error” when I try, so I’ve sent the info to my webmaster to fix.

 

In the meantime, I’ll do my best to come up with something else interesting for you, who probably has zero interest in reading about copy writing…

 

But dagnab it, it’s frustrating to have a full-blown post sitting in my head that I can’t do a darn thing about until the website is available to me again!  YOU can get to it; I can, too–to see it–but not to post anything to it!

 

I suppose I could write the post in Word and transfer it later to the website…

 

But, naw!   I’m here now. I don’t want to waste what I’ve already written here, so let’s just go with it!

 

Keeping with the subject at hand–I’m frustrated— let’s see what else I can come up with (politics aside) that’s chapping my hide…

 

1.) FOUR of my writing clients are in various stages of getting back to me so I can finalize their copy and submit for payment.  I wish they’d all get their rears in gear and send me what I need so I can do what they want me to do.

 

I have a sneaking suspicion they’ll all land on my desk on the same day and want results “yesterday,” and I’ll end up feeling overwhelmed instead of pining for another project.

 

But since they didn’t send me what I needed when they said they would, I guess they’ll find it in their hearts to cut me some slack when it comes to getting it back, because they disrupted my schedule to start with, so any delay in delivery will be because of that.

 

I had them on my calendar for specific dates, and they all sent me their apologies, with “I’ll get you what you need in the next day or two…”

 

(Two of them have told me this twice already…so scheduling them in will happen when I actually receive what I need to proceed. I need to keep my writing calendar as full as I want it to be.)

Gee, I guess that’s ALL that’s frustrating me at the moment (other than the usual on the political front), so I should consider myself lucky. It isn’t life-or-death (except on the political front). It’s  situational. (even on the political front). It will all work out eventually, except maybe on the political front, but I’m an eternal optimist, so I’m hanging onto hope with both hands!

 

And speaking of situational…

 

When I went in for my first meeting with the gender dysphoria doctor, she gave me two general screening questionnaires to see if I was either depressed or anxiety-driven. I scored 0 (not depressed, not anxious) on all questions, but I wrote in the margins of the depression screening, “The only depression I’m experiencing right now is situational–and it’s politics/far-right/Trump-related!!!

 

When the doctor read that, she said, “You have no idea how common that is these days.”

 

My retort: “Oh, yes, I do! My friends and I are all having cows over it!”