i dreamt i saw you walking
up a hillside in the snow
casting shadows on the winter sky
as you stood there counting crows
one for sorrow, two for joy,
three for girls, and four for boys,
five for silver, six for gold, and
seven for a secret never to be told

there's a bird that nests inside you
sleeping underneath your skin
when you open up your wings to speak
i wish you'd let me in

from "a murder of one" ~ counting crows
going to bed early

it's been an exhausting day . . . work is still busy as hell, just in a new way.

i moved to a new team where we make the pay for performance ads perform better and i take the front line calls. we have others that delve into the depths of an ad and research industry info, etc to build a better ad and another group that takes our existing ads and converts them for Goooogle.

all of us are swamped as hell, scrambling to prove not only our personal worth but the value of what we do to both the company and the client. it's exciting and stressful all at the same time. i came in on the second wave to hit the phones and things are happening daily!

i'm one of only two contractors on the team (something everyone forgets about me) and they actually take my input seriously! occasionally i still get a little of the "you're just a contractor" attitude, but mostly, we are the best of the best out of the other teams and we are treated as such. you have no idea how good it feels to have people who are permanent - and have been there longer than me - ask ME how to fix something and what to do in a situation and to realize that i know exactly what to tell them. we had a meeting today to vent and brainstorm for solutions to some of the issues such a new team is having and my input was not only appreciated but sought . . . AND i was individually recognized, too. it's awesome.

i love what i do, even in the stressful frantic times like this.

we are officially 2 bodies short (realistically about 4 bodies short) on the front line to get all the calls handled & routed along with all the reports, callbacks & follow up needed for what we do, and since we are new, we get a lot of misdirected calls that we really shouldn't handle but we have to.

anyways, it's 10 o'clock and i'm beat - even after the hour long nap i took when i got home, so i'm gonna beat a path to my bed and crash. i'll be having sweet dreams of a few select darlings . . . you know who you are! *wink*


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confessed on Tuesday, May. 23, 2006