As many of my readers are well aware, I normally go through the week with a bit of sleep deprivation. Today was one of those days where I could have used another two or three hours of sleep. So I had to fight off the impulse to sleep much of the day.
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One of the things that is a blessing and a curse of my job is the repetitive nature of many of its tasks. Today, I shifted between two of these tasks. The first task involved finding index documentation not captured during image scanning and insuring that each document had a clean index before deleting the indexing page from the document. The second involved doing manual OCR scan of information found in a document and entering it into a data base. Neither of these tasks takes much brain work. So one can easily lose track of time while listening to music on an MP3 player. Yet, one can that time moves slowly when one has things on her mind. Because the tasks are so repetitive, one can get into a groove, and start nodding off. This happens to me often. So I have developed some tricks to keep from falling asleep on the job.
After 8 hours of pushing keys and moving mouse, I could have very easily fallen asleep. Unfortunately, I had a co-op board meeting to attend to. And this took up most of the evening after I got home. Hopefully, my visit to the land of nod will be better than last night's visit....
