Lies

Sometimes a lie really comes back to bite you in the...sometimes it's bad to lie. Well, it's always bad to lie, but sometimes the repercussions are more immediate. I was on the phone this morning with my student mentor, having our weekly update meeting. I was telling her I had completed a class "behind the scenes" and wanted her to pull the class into my term so I could accelerate it and get it out of the way. This was sort of a lie because technically I had only completed two of the three tasks. I lied because I knew I could finish the last task in one day and the last time my mentor pulled a class into my term, it took three days to manifest itself in Taskstream. So I figured I had three days to complete the final task.

It took ten minutes.

So I find myself even busier tonight than I had originally anticipated, at the end of a busy day. On top of an extremely busy day at work, a lunchtime appointment with my periodontist, and  a trying day with Scarlet, I had a two-hour phone call with my team for a different class this evening (missing book club, which completely devastated me) and I now have to complete the final task in the last hour before bedtime. Which is why I'm eating pineapple sorbet and blogging. Because it's important not to burn out. :)