I almost always get done with tests before anyone else in a class. (The exception was math and foreign languages.) Sometimes I’d get done so far ahead that even after rechecking my answers I’d feel too embarrassed to go up and turn my test in so I’d sit for another ten or twenty minutes. This was because if I turned my test in too early my teacher would inevitably say something like, “Are you sure?” or “Take it back and double-check.” The insinuation being, of course, that anything done that quickly must be a mess. Only (with the exception of math and foreign languages) it never was. It’s because I read fast and I can put my thoughts together quickly. And with keyboards? I type about 115 words per minute.

I got done with this job too quickly, too. I’ll likely still have edits and there’s more to write next week but as of now, I’m done with this stage and I feel so, so nervous about it. Being a fast writer makes me worry.

(Of course this seems crazy because I’m also a very slow writer, which also makes me worry. I take forever to write an essay but service or marketing communications stuff I can write really really fast.)

I got my feedback from two people today and they only wanted minor changes but I still feel like I must’ve done it wrong. (And in fact, I see something I deleted on one sheet but not on another and am afraid it’ll sit there glaring at them and pulsing with, “Do not hire her again. She missed this deletion because she is TOO FAST.”)

I really have no idea what reasonable expectations are so I guess that’s why I’m always worried that I won’t meet them. Argh.

(In financial news, the missing check has been sighted along with the other missing check winging their merry way into our checking account. Our records should reflect that any minute now since they were released yesterday!)

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