alrighty, work week from hell #3 is over and done with, and i'm halfway through a lost weekend - been too busy catching up on all the sleep i lost at the beginning of the week to actually get anything accomplished. *sigh* i wasn't really thinking of next week as a "vacation", but now i'm starting to feel that way - just the thought of being as far away as possible from the crap at work is heavenly, even if i am gonna be locked up in a hospital room for half a week with wires attached to everything. *shrug*

i worked 43+ hours in 3 days - yeah, okay, i know doctors and people like that do that shit all the time, but i sure as hell am NOT taking home a paycheck like them either. and it's not like we get any sort of appreciation for what we do either - i think our department is definitely taken for granted. at this point, all i can think is "be careful what you wish for - you just might get it" - here i was thinking i was ready for more work and more responsibilities and now that i've got them, ARGH! they're driving me nuts! who knows, perhaps kim will read them the riot act at work and it won't happen again (she PROMISED us it wouldn't) but i'm not holding my breath. it's nice to hear her say it and all, but hey, if the freakin sales dept wants to quadruple the work load on us in a given week, she can't really stop it.