by Boschi » Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:05 pm
First off: ktv: that majorly, majorly sucks. Bureacratic academic bullshit (was that an oxymoron in triplicate??) is the bane of all that is good in this world.
Second: Holy shit. I feel completely behind and not nearly enough in charge of what's happening with this new business/farm thing. My partner always seems so reasonable but for some reason the way he goes through the world and the way I go through the world don't seem to mesh well. I never feel like I handle on the direction he feels things are or should be heading.
So for example: early in this he said I should do the field planning and just factor in the crops he needs for his CSA. OK, sez me, and puts a lot of frigging time in to doing this, and then based my seed ordering on that. Now he suddenly is all gung ho to start planning things - which, I must emphasize, really needed to be done like 2 months ago. So now my field plan is up for review.
In the beginning he said he wanted to do seed orders in smaller chunks, even though I pointed out that a single order, when possible, would save us on shipping. Now he's commenting on how odd he finds it that I didn't order everything to begin with.
Let's not mention the greenhouse structure he was sure he could put up in no time.... we're into quite a bit of time now.
And on the totally my fault front: holy shit I am just in high stupid drive for the past week. I can't think, I can't get organized, I feel completely foggy. And so I feel even less on top of things. It's taking me hours to do something that I should be able to do in half an hour.
So all these things that I should've gotten done have just built up until I.... feel completely out of control again. The to do list is long and ugly.
Also, I'm getting the distinct sensation that I'm pretty much going to break even this year. To be expected early on in a business, but the reason I partnered with this guy was because the preliminary numbers looked decidedly better than working on my own.
Ugh. If I wasn't worried about my brain cells already, I'd go beat my head on a hard, bumpy surface.....