Oh the paperwork!
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pinksoniaThis hotel has the loudest feral cat ever hanging out in the parking lot. I'm trying to decide which cat from Cats to name it after, but I can't decided which song I find most annoying. Jenny Any-Dots is currently rather high in the running.
I never realized how much paperwork it was possible to generate with out really having an office. I am apparently now the highest ranking member of the field crew on this project for this ten-day, so I get to be in charge of the book. Which means that my rather small hotel room is now a room/office complete with printer/scanner/copy machine, lap-top (in addition to my own mac), GPS unit and charging cradle, and work phone. With the addition of my personal phone it's amazing that I managed to get everything plugged in.
It has occured to me that I suck at delegation. I should probably be passing off a bunch of this paperwork to other people to get done, and should certainly be returning their half-filled out copies to them to fix, but I just can't seem to. I have that wonderful gifted-child complex of perfectionism and therefore want the FS log organized in a certain way (lowest to highest northing, lowest to highest easting within each northing, then lowest to highest level with in each shovel test). Most people just write the next number on the next bag they pull out of the pile which makes it way harder to locate things if you need to check them in the future. Also, I've been assigned a bunch of boys with atrocious handwriting. Everything is much prettier when I do it myself.
Today I got to play cleanup on an access road which someone else surveyed but did not delineate to find the extent of the site they located. The original survey neglected to change to high probability after then found their initial positive to they said that the road had four isolated finds. Instead, at least two of those isolates are actually part of a large site where we found the largest piece of prehistoric pottery I've ever seen. Tomorrow I get to go back and see if the third and fourth isolates are actually isolates or whether they'll join together into a second large site. Fun times. I do so love fixing other people's messes.
I never realized how much paperwork it was possible to generate with out really having an office. I am apparently now the highest ranking member of the field crew on this project for this ten-day, so I get to be in charge of the book. Which means that my rather small hotel room is now a room/office complete with printer/scanner/copy machine, lap-top (in addition to my own mac), GPS unit and charging cradle, and work phone. With the addition of my personal phone it's amazing that I managed to get everything plugged in.
It has occured to me that I suck at delegation. I should probably be passing off a bunch of this paperwork to other people to get done, and should certainly be returning their half-filled out copies to them to fix, but I just can't seem to. I have that wonderful gifted-child complex of perfectionism and therefore want the FS log organized in a certain way (lowest to highest northing, lowest to highest easting within each northing, then lowest to highest level with in each shovel test). Most people just write the next number on the next bag they pull out of the pile which makes it way harder to locate things if you need to check them in the future. Also, I've been assigned a bunch of boys with atrocious handwriting. Everything is much prettier when I do it myself.
Today I got to play cleanup on an access road which someone else surveyed but did not delineate to find the extent of the site they located. The original survey neglected to change to high probability after then found their initial positive to they said that the road had four isolated finds. Instead, at least two of those isolates are actually part of a large site where we found the largest piece of prehistoric pottery I've ever seen. Tomorrow I get to go back and see if the third and fourth isolates are actually isolates or whether they'll join together into a second large site. Fun times. I do so love fixing other people's messes.
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Date: 2008-10-05 12:51 am (UTC)Especially the cat, at least today. I had one under my window myself for quite a while, and then my neighbor's cat liked hanging out on the window ledge directly across from mine and howling as if someone was stabbing it death. That someone was about to be me.
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Date: 2008-10-05 04:17 pm (UTC)Oh I remember the hotel-office days. Are you promoted yet? You need to be promoted yet.
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Date: 2008-10-06 11:14 am (UTC)I will try to remember to get pictures of the pottery before I turn it into the lab.