If you’ve ever wondered why the ADD adult in your life can’t seem to get things done in a timely manner, perhaps the following tale will shed some light. The moral, for those of you who want the Cliff’s Notes version, is that sometimes it pays NOT to optimize.
One of the things on my to do list today was to order some slides online. There’s a cool site called iPrintFromHome that does digital slides (and prints, and giclees, and stuff like that) if you upload your jpegs. My art teacher is requiring us to show slides this term, so I had to make some, and since I have to show them next week, I needed to place the order today.
I was uploading about a dozen high-resolution jpegs (at least, I HOPE they were the high res versions …
and that can take awhile for a computer to do. I wouldn’t have ADHD if I tolerated boredom, you know, AT ALL, so I decided to do something else with the time — namely, start building a blogroll for this blog. I congratulated myself on taking advantage of some dead time, and started building a blogroll.
Time passed, as I clicked through the blogs I like, looking for relevant content and links to other relevant content. Then my browser crashed (Firefox doesn’t like it when you’re running 35 tabs in two windows, apparently) and I had to restart my computer to get it running again. Only it didn’t start running again; it rebooted and instantly froze. I tried closing the windows several times, and eventually I guess it thawed enough to actually quit … and then I restarted my browser, again.
By that time my husband was online, and we got to discussing his upcoming job change, which reminded me that since his new job will require him to take a pay cut, I’ll need to hustle for a day job to make ends meet. That, in turn, reminded me I should really work on my resume. So I did that for awhile. After saying that I possess Excellent Written and Oral Communication Skills (doesn’t everyone say that?) I went looking for a different word to use to describe my “visual and artistic skills” … and opened thesaurus.com in a new tab … and realized that I was supposed to have my slides done three hours ago.
I got my pictures uploaded and the slides ordered. I looked up when I can expect my order to arrive. I found out that they do same day shipping if you place your order by 6 pm Eastern. If I’d just patiently waited while my jpegs loaded the slides would have shipped today. I hope that that it won’t cost me too much time to have them ship tomorrow, but I’ve been burned by FedEx Ground before.