What Do You Do All Day?
(or "Stop Me Before I Volunteer Again")

Wednesday, March 02, 2011

 

Desk Days

Finally, a second day in a row where the path seems clear for productivity. It's amazing how much smoother things go when there are consecutive days for desk work. In fact, it might not be a bad idea to schedule desk days on my calendar, and try to work some of the meetings around them. As it is, when I get out of meetings now, very often, instead of going home to do the required follow-up tasks, I either rush directly into another meeting, or home to prepare for the next meeting...and then none of the real work gets done. As a result, desk days have come to feel almost like vacations, despite the fact that they're when I get my real work done. As if that makes any sense at all.

Desk Day Done

- Attended another 2-hour budget meeting at the neighborhood school

- Came home and answered a bit of urgent e-mail

- Did some online research on church website architecture for the church project and did a bit of brainstorming on how to organize a couple of sections of the new site

- Looked up a couple of corporate grant opportunities for the neighborhood school

- Printed out and filed information from Monday's subway station meeting

- Updated the grant opportunity "hot list" for Alex's school

- Went over the latest Neighborhood Council website comps and had a phone consultation with the designer to discuss minor changes and next steps

- Spoke with one of the vendors the NC has been trying to pay and finally got the payment worked out

- Filled out and pulled together documentation for several demand warrants and the quarterly credit card reconciliation report for the NC, so the treasurer can sign them at a meeting tomorrow morning

posted by Elizabeth 11:43 AM

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