Hat display

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie...at least that*s what this reminds me of...  On the way to do paperwork I was thwarted be a locked drawer, and a new computer system which would not allow me access.  When I found the key, I also found something else which ended up being very good.  I am grateful for locked drawers and new computer systems.

Paperwork was on the docket

This morning.

I arrived to find the drawer locked.

This meant I had to find the key.

In the process of finding the key,

I found the program director

Who only knows me

As the mental health volunteer.

She had no idea

I wear other hats.

I showed her

My hat collection.

She had no idea.

Simply no idea.

Absolutely no idea

I wear so many hats.

Paperwork was on the docket

Except

The entire computer network

Was reconfigured over the weekend.

I.T. guys were stationed everywhere.

The drawer was locked.

In the process of finding the key,

I displayed my hats.

Very little paperwork

Got done.

Paperwork Queen

Part of my learning these days is to fill in the blanks while standing on my head, to figure out the logic behind the forms so I don*t have to learn each piece by rote.  Of course this assumes there was some logic to begin with.  I admit I hear the Red Queen shouting in the background:  Off with her head!

Yesterday I learned

I will never be a paperwork queen

Or princess,

Or probably even

A paperwork vassal.

Alas.

Alack.

The GAF score is meant to be

The DLA divided by two,

Except

Except

Except

The two do not measure the same things.

And

The highest score in the past year

Must not include today*s score.

That

Of course

Is different.

I will never be the paperwork queen.

Of course

The queen sets the rules,

Is never questioned.

Hers is the new logic.

Off with her head

Shouts the Red Queen

The quintessential ruler of all paperwork.

Off with her head.