It's been a hell of a week.

OK. So, I have had a harrowing week.

I have given up two departments, no three. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I feel relieved. It is the right thing, not for the reasons presented, but for what is good all around. But I am dissappointed that I wasn't better at running a division. But, heck... that's the way it is.

With my new focus, I feel so elated, it isn't even funny. People in the departments that still remain are so thrilled to have me back along with my attentions. Everyone told me for months I had too many things going on. I wasn't accessible. They needed me.

As for my repugnant personality, I had one that left my charge tell me she grew and found out she could do new things when she worked for me. Another this week told me she liked my management style. So fuck it.

I had to fire a friend this week also. Someone I liked. I cried for the first time in years. Go figure.

Well, ok, I realize how much I have neglected the areas that I am good at. So, now I am going to focus and dig in.

I also hope to get some management training, which I am actually looking forward to. My MBA class is going well.

2 Corinthians 4:8-9: "We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed."

That's me.