"I am not a fan of Office Depot," or "How one hour can turn your day upside down."

Well, I think I mentioned that I had to revise my dissertation's Table of Contents, right?  I needed to add dots.

I finally got around to doing that last night, since I was going to drop the corrected pages (two copies each on resume paper, and one on plain) to the Graduate School this morning. 

I corrected the pages and then uploaded the files to the Office Depot website for printing.  I figured I would pick them up in the morning on my way to school.

Now my school isn't necessarily close by. It takes about 45 minutes to drive there, so I try to be efficient and multi-task while there.

So...here was my plan for the day. 

8 am - Pick up paper from Office Depot

8:15 - Pick up flowers for my professors

9 - Arrive in Denton and the Graduate School.  Drop off paper and drop off flowers.

9:30 Meet with fellow librarian regarding some TLA* stuff

11 - drive back to work.

Now, Fred will tell you that I like to plan things to the nth degree.  He is pretty much correct about this.  I do like to plan.  That doesn't mean that I can't roll with it when needed, but it makes me cranky.

This is what my day actually looked like:

8 - arrive at Office Depot.  Are my pages printed?  Nope.  Is the computer that contains the files, or the printer even turned on or fired up? No.

9:10 - leave Office Depot, cursing their name.

9:12 - Call my 9:30 apt and tell them I will be late...like 30 mins late

9:30 - when I should have been done with most of my day and at a meeting, I leave Central Market with flowers.

9:50 - curse the truck in front of me for driving 10 miles BELOW the speed limit on a two lane road.  The speed limit is 65!!!!! He was doing 50!  This is TEXAS...everyone drives 15 miles faster than the speed limit, not slower!  MOVE!!!!

10:01 - arrive at meeting.  Have a really good jalapeno biscuit which makes me smile and makes me want to drive back to Denton to have another.

11:10 - leave meeting and head to University.

11:30 - all pages and flowers dropped off and back on the road to work. 

12:10 (10 minutes late) I arrive at work. 

From all the stress and rushing I have a killer headache.

And I want another jalapeno biscuit.

*TLA.  - Texas Library Association.  I am going to be talking about this a lot.