I'm Not ADHD...Am I?
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 03:18PM 
A few of my peers are becoming concerned with my workload. Not from the perspective that I'm not delivering, but moreso based on my ability, or lack thereof, to focus on any one thing considering all the shit I have to deal with on a daily.
On a normal day, I've got nothing but back-to-back meetings, on-site, or on conference calls, multi-million dollar projects that involve the French who take the entire month of August off, which, by the way, have now made my overall project status "yellow." Add to that...dealings with a user-pool who has nothing better to do than bitch and whine about system defects, but really are user-errors (idiots), managers who take no accountability for anything, but yet seem to get promo'd to bigger titles, vendors who are so far up my ass, thinking I'm the ultimate deal-maker/breaker here, and the Danny Conrads, who are likened to the "Succubus" (from a South Park episode).
...speaking of South Park, anyone see Hamlet 2? I did, along with The House Bunny...wasn't it that chick from Scary Movie? Girlfriends and I saw it this past weekend. Kinda' like our girls night out with the release of Sex and The City, the movie, but didn't go out for drinks afterwards this time, since one of the BFFs had a horrible migraine. (Hmmm...wonder how she's doing...I'll give her a shout later)...
...speaking of shouts, I think there are a couple birthdays this month. Shit! Is it already September? This year's going by quickly, and it's getting hard to keep track of things, let alone follow a plan...
...speaking of following anything, how do I get more people to follow me on Twitter? And with 'Twitteriffic' on my iPhone, I tweet all day....
...speaking of iPhone, this is greatest thing ever!! Read a hilarious post on the FSJ Blog a few weeks ago on how everyon, but Apple, is dead.
...speaking of dead, deadlines that is, I've got a couple of things to prep for for my four o'clock meeting, so gotta' run.
But no, I'm not ADHD. I'm just a great multi-tasker. Men don't do this very well and admit to it. Then again, there's a lot of things men don't do very well. But there are some things that a certain someone can do very well. Maybe I should call Johnnie later and see what he's up to.
Really, I gotta run...oh look, more tweets on Google Chrome. I downloaded it to two of four devices yesterday. So far, works lightning fast.
Damn...running late again..seriously gotta' go. But no, I'm not ADHD...that's all I was trying to say.
Reader Comments (10)
Re Twitter, block the spammers. Those are the people following 5K people and only 5 people follow them. Next, visit the blogs of people who have those "Follow me on Twitter" things on their blog. Comment on their blog so they will recognize your name... then follow them on Twitter. If they recognize your name they won't block you. Trust me. Just visit the blogs on my blogroll... lots of them have the Follow me thing...
Oh and use the twitterfeed thing... and brightkite... and facebook...and friendfeed... all that stuff starts adding to your list. Mine seems really big now at 60.
While I'm positive you are ADHD, I noticed something else about you. I know your name has "Tech" in it, but I seem to ignore that because of the "Babe" part. But after reading this post, I definitely see the geek in you... No offense... You're still a babe...
This is soooo classic you TB! Thks for the chuckle. ;)
LOL !!! You are looking at this all wrong... you need to get diagnosed with ADHD and then you can get a prescription to Adderall ... it make you loss weight (like Hollywood style) and you can share the perscription with me so we can look even better!!!
You are not ADHD, you have multiple-personality disover and each personality is focusing on something different. I think that is the glass-half full view......
But maybe at least one of your personalities has ADHD, that would be the glass-half-emplty view.
In either case, the fact you can blog, twitter, meet, email, project manage, drink coffee, and still find time to hate the French at the same time is an Olympic caliber acheivement. Michael Phelps will be FedEx'ing one of his Golds to you tonight. And he is going to beat the shit out of some French dude who got a gold for Speed Tricycling and give you that Gold as well. Enjoy!
Winter: Thanks for the Twitter-Tips...I'll look into all of that=)
Jason X: No offense taken. Thank for recognizing the "babe" in me ;)
Corp-Negotiator: Adderall as a diet supplement? Hmmm...don't give me any ideas. Not that I need to lose, but good to know in the event I want to deal this stuff.
D: I'd prefer Platinum over Gold. I don't wear gold well, but thanks for the support! =P
except that Adderall makes your teeth rot. But anyways, I do the same thing! Multi-task like crazy, which is why it takes me two hours to write a decent blog post. easier to tweet anyway. Less likely to lose the thought.
BTW, I am having a lot of fun reading about you and JasonX
Never knew Adderall makes your teeth rot. Well, scratch that idea!
Glad you're having fun here! There's plenty more coming...all it takes is working in IT.