Today I found myself stuck in the spot I don't want to be in - faced with work that had to be done but I was not what I wanted to be spending my time on. There were two facets to this. First, the topic - fishery disaster assistance - is one for which I have little control over the eventual decision. Second, the decision, whatever it turns out to be, is of little consequence in the long run for our main mission - sustainable management of fisheries.
But this kind of thing comes along with the government job territory. In one sense, it's important because it's important to someone higher up than me, and I should just get over the rest of it. But that's not the state of mind I was in today.
It's an accomplishment of sorts that I was well aware of what was going on. I was also feeling low on the energy scale - perhaps coming down with one of the cold viruses that have been going around - and thought that might be making it harder for me to pull out of the mud hole I found myself stuck in.
By the end of the day, I did manage to move things along, so perhaps tomorrow will be fertile ground for a more positive outlook. The topic isn't going away, so the sooner I can get to the "want to" perspective, the better.
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