Virtue

RantWoman has come to work with a brain that really wants to go play in the park. This is a problem because:

--RantWoman's body did not get nearly enough exercise yesterday and it needs to go play in the park or something too as soon as possible.

--RantWoman is her own boss and knowlingly got herself into a couple projects "for the experience" even though they are not always her favorites.

--RantWoman is not the most disciplined employee on the planet.

--RantWoman is not the fiercest taskmaster or boss on the planet.

--RantWoman's life still feels like a whole lot of data collection and trial and error which looks to some outside observers like it is not on a linear path to workplace success. RantWoman being at heart a data nut disagrees but that just adds another layer to the task of managing RantWoman.

--RantWoman has a bunch of tiresome, pissy, and even aggravating tasks she needs just to get done rather than build up giant neuroses about while she procrastinates. RantWoman needs to feed bureaucracies some paperwork. RantWoman needs to finish a contract her teammates have already done most of the heavy lifting about to hire someone else. RantWoman needs to move another project along to its next phases. RantWoman needs to read some more email about a third project and prepare for something related to that project tomorrow morning. RantWoman also needs to get her rear end out the door to do some actual exercise and MAYBE go pick up a check she can then feed into other bureaucracies.

--RantWoman is spending a lot of time on a really cool public participation project. RantWoman even wants to post about something idiosyncratic and personal slightly related to this project. However, since RantWoman is conscientious in her efforts to serve the public, RantWoman dutifully read the blogging guidelines. These basically said don't post or post with EXTREME caution. RantWoman would think to run the threads of what she wants to say about her personal experience by her agency contact. However RantWoman's agency contact is swamped with a data assembly and distribution phase of the project and RantWoman expects her not really to be available to comment for a few days.So RantWoman either gets to scrub very carefully herself or....

So how does RantWoman get to virtue out of all this?

RantWoman just went online and paid her rent and phone bill. This is practically virtue overload!