I know I haven't been around. In fact I haven't touched a computer for fun in a while. My keyboard has somehow become a grindstone.

The word 'Banner' may not mean much to some but to me and my coworkers it's a four letter word, here lately it's become the bane of my existence.

When I first started at this university I remember sitting down to get trained on the program that they use for all record keeping and what was staring back at me looked an awful lot like DOS - think Wargames the movie from the eighties. I actually said "you're kidding, right?" Little did I know that the ITS department was cooking up a plan to change... everything. So here we are smack dab in the middle of the Axcess project (we're lumberjacks, get it? An ax...? Oh, well... I didn't laugh either.) We are in the middle of a software conversion and the P-Card Program is completely on my shoulders. In fact my boss wants so little to do with it that if it fails it's all on numero uno.

The worst part is that I have nobody to refer to because the trusty Banner people have no idea how the P-Card section works because no other university in the country uses it. Sure is lonely around here... For the next two months I've got to take all my expertise that I've accumulated by the endless testing I've done and use it to train every cardholder on campus, rouqhly 500 people. Needless to say my GMAT studying will be put off, the stress is just too great and ever accumulating. Add the fact that it's been way too hot to run and you've got a woman on the edge of pulling all her hair out piece by piece.

So, I'm bidding adieu for the meantime. Let's hope that this is a huge success and that I'm completely adored and celebrated. But when you work for the state, don't hold your breath. Take care!!