Prioritise EVERYTHING!

I left my book at the pub last night. It's not a problem, I haven't lost it forever or anything, I work there and it was left on a shelf behind the bar with my scarf. Ironically so that I wouldn't forget it when I left to go home. So this morning on my way to work instead of having my nose in a book I looked around me. I have a particularly nice view on my way to work as I cross Tower Bridge and go along the South Bank a little way, so I really should appriciate it a little more. I watched the Thames swell showing smooth surfaces looking like a balloon streatched and close to bursting and ripples like the same balloon after it had burst, looking old wrinkled and useless. Cormerants on the surface taking a deep breath to dive. It was lovely. There's always something going on in the green outside City Hall and this morning there was a huge inflateable dome that wasn't there yesterday, I'll see what that's all about at lunch time.

I got into work ten minutes early to be greeted by my boss asking if I had finished a task she gave me on Tuesday afternoon. To explain, I've done this before and it took the best part of a week and yesterday I had to go to a meeting, take the minutes and type them up. On top of which she has put me on phone duty which means that as soon as you get any kind of flow for anything you're doing the phone rings and you have to stop. So my reply was "no, I'm afraid I haven't had the time to finish it yet, but I'll get on to it now if you want." She tells me it's a priority to get it done so start it ASAP. I'm not even meant to be here yet and I know she wont sign my timesheet for a minute over my contracted hours. "And the TfL post didn't go out yesterday so can you do that as a priority too?" she added accusitory. She didn't even ask me to do that so that can't be my fault! She's obviously read the word 'priority' in a memo she's recently recieved and got the jist of the meaning but not quite the correct definition, I really want to tell her that if she keeps calling things "priority" it equates to nothing being a priority and that if you want someone to do something you a) have to ask them and b) give then enough time to get it done.

And today started off with so much promise!