Too much

Today, I again spent the whole day putting out fires. And the problems all have cascades and interactions: I needed to move the histology site to the server in the ISB and, as I was doing the work, I was reminded that the default paths on the ISB server are still broken. And I found that the version of drupal there wasn't up-to-date, so I updated it. And the update overwrote .htaccess and broke the password changing stuff. And while I was looking through log files, I found that people had links to bad, outdated URLs for password changing, so I put in redirects. And that's the simple, streamlined version of just 5% of what happened today.

While I was in the middle of stuff, Alisa called, angry with the contractor. They didn't come on Monday, like they said they would, and they wanted to ask her a question just as she was leaving, and this and that and the other thing. When I finally hung up the phone, it was all just too much. I got up and walked down to the courtyard, and sat there for 20 minutes just looking at the sky and the flowers and listening to the wind.

Alisa called back and said that things were OK. I took at deep breath and went back to my office. But I fixed myself a little lunch, took a little time for myself, and then threw myself back into things and got, at least, most of the stuff that had gotten unwound, stuffed back into place.

It's been the busiest, craziest, toughest beginning of the fall yet. Something really has to give.