Last night was drawing class, and it seemed a lot more like how a drawing class I'm in should go. Namely, I couldn't draw a straight line to save my life. We were doing perspective -- particularly two point perspective -- which is nothing if not straight lines and lots of them. I felt at best incompetent.

When we actually did some still life perspective drawing, namely of wooden cube constructs, I did better. But still, it was pretty disheartening.

Speaking of disheartening....

I just had two different people walk in with technical problems, and deep level explanations why they're more important than everyone else, why their problems are the ones that should be the top of our priority list, and why they're just not getting good service from us.

I'm very close to simply resigning at this point. I can cope with people having needs. I can cope with long hours. I can't cope with tunnel vision by everyone who comes in. I just can't. Not everyone is the top of the list. I'm sorry. That's the way it works.

Part of the problem is staffing. I can't close the front door and send my tech all over the building. I'm not allowed to. So we need to send interns remotely, and that happens when they're here. And then the person thinks we're being dismissive of them because we're sending an intern down.

I'm just sick of it. I'm sick of it all. I've seen this office do incredible things in the last two weeks, and the thanks they've gotten is "but what have you done for me lately?" And me? I don't even have the 'incredible things' to fall back on. The most I can say for the past two and a half weeks is I've killed a dog and put in a lot of extra hours, trying my damnedest.

And that's not nearly enough it seems, but they're not willing to hire an external tech. So, people are testy and there's little to nothing I can do for them.

Whatever. Maybe I shouldn't care.