Monday Memoirs: The Workflow Waltz Monday doesn’t ask politely

Monday doesn’t ask politely. It arrives like a campus-wide reCAPTCHA challenge—misclick once, and you’re decoding street signs until lunch.

The inbox opens like a Balkan accordion: wheezing requests, project pings, and just enough cryptic survey logic to warrant a folk ballad. As Technical Solutions Manager, my Monday workload isn’t just tasks—it’s choreography. Every process has a beat, every glitch has a refrain.

☕ Morning Cadence:

• Triage SharePoint tickets with the intensity of a Balkan espresso.
• Review institutional research deliverables (and reformat tables as if they were sacred scrolls).
• Play whack-a-mole with policy alignment emails—bonus points for commas and grace.

🧩 Midday Orchestration:

• Guide workflow documentation for survey integrations like a symphony conductor with half the sheet music missing.
• Troubleshoot LMS sync issues while munching on ribs, contemplating if Ajvar can be used as a metaphor for data accessibility.
• Prepare project status updates that toe the line between concise and borderline poetic.

🕸️ Afternoon Tangles:

• Untangle Power Automate spaghetti—finding joy in clean loops and tragic branching errors.
• Reinforce accountability protocols with the gentle firmness of a Balkan baba who said the somun was rising… but you peeked.
• Brief research directors with clear, actionable summaries and maybe a dash of comic irreverence (if the room allows).

By 5:00 PM, the day has settled like slow-cooked leadership prose—dense, flavorful, and ready for tomorrow’s remix. The tattoo of Monday isn’t visible, but it’s etched in the soul of every institutional technologist who dares to dream in both syntax and satire.