On Hold

With my job, we have busy seasons and we have slow seasons.  Our slow season kicks in around November, and goes through the winter until about March or so.

Well, this slow season (aka: right now), we also have upcoming changes for students starting after February 1st.  Which means, we can't work on students who are starting later than that, even if we have their documents in hand...which makes this slow season exceptionally slow...

Our system refreshes every 2 hours, and we all sit there, refreshing our screens like crazy, praying for something work-related to do!  But often, we are left wanting...

So, we answer phone calls, do laundry, organize our desks, wash the dishes, and stare at our computer screens until the next system refresh.