Challenges of a new job

I'm sitting at the computer with Molly sitting in front of me. She is such a happy and attention seeking cat and everytime she feels she should have some attention she reaches out with her paw and claws you till you stroke her. I know I am feeding this inappropriate behaviour but she is so cute and funny and I love her dearly.

Work is getting more challenging. As it becomes clearer as to what my role is so it becomes more challenging as to the demands of it. For example yesterday I went to a shared partnership meeting where all I had to do was drink tea, eat biscuits and act new. I came away with one task which I am sharing with 4 other people. Everyone was lovely and it was a relaxed and pleasant way to spend the morning.
Today I arrive at Stansted expecting much the same and find that I am suddenly expected to be the fount of all knowledge and even worse to have a clear plan of what to do when the lead body seems to have done very little except oversee some painting. We're due to be designated shortly and the entrance way has not been built yet!! I've put in an emergency call to Diane but am not sure if I am panicking unduly or not. The feeling around the table was that nothing had been done.

These lead bodies seem to take the role of being lead and yet do very little about steering the project forward. Is that my role? Am I supposed to project manage all of these? I look back on Odette's notes and see that she did an awful lot of work and some of it looks very technical. Sometimes well actually a lot of times I feel way out of my depth here. The language, the terms is all new to me and I do struggle to keep up with these very clever more strategiclly minded people. I just hope I can make the leap needed. Then I tell myself that of course I can. Its a job that needs to be broken down into the simplest constituency and worked through methodically. Thats what Greg would do anyway.

Health - got a cold which is a pain
Mood - good although a bit concerned or worried about work---its a challenge
Money - okayish. Ordered tickets to LotR which cost nearly £200 but will be boys christmas presents
Weather - autumnal now
News _ Burma. Those brave people and monks. It looks horribly like its going to be a massacre. Why doesn't China say or do something and show solidarity with the rest of the world? I almost can't bare to watch or listen and almost cry when I hear of the monks sitting praying and being beaten with rifle butts.