Two more days before vacation
1 day, 11 hours, 32 minutes and 15 seconds is the remaining time till I will be in vacation! I haven’t been in a vacation for more than 1 year. I can’t wait to get out of the office and spend two wonderful weeks on the beaches in Turkey.
One year without vacation is taking its toll. Even if I go to bed at a decent hour in the night and I manage to sleep 8-9 hours per night in the morning I feel like I’m hit by a truck. I can’t get up from the bed, my head is spinning and I can’t open my eyes. The alarm clock sounds at 8 AM and I torture myself with at least six 5 minutes snoozes till 8:30. At 8:30 - 8:40 I manage to crawl till the bathroom. At 9 AM I’m usually dressed and ready to go to work. Of course I should have been at work at that hour. Around 9 AM I enter Amaro's room to wake him up. I usually find him sleeping in weird position like he was "hit by a grenade" (© Vony). While Amaro is getting ready I wait in my room, laying on the bed like a whale beached on the shore, looking at Animal Planet (Unfortunately we don’t have the "Tree Channel").
Around 9:30 - 9:40 I and Amaro arrive at the office. Carlos is usually there at that time, well in two out of three of the cases Carlos is there. He seems more wrecked than me. For me the fact that I'm so close to the vacation is giving me demonic strength to work something but for Carlos this is giving him a demonic strength for procrastination.
I want to remind to the readers that from last week only I and Carlos were at the office and everybody else is in vacation. By everybody I mean Brain, Pinky, Bernie and the cool guy from Italy for which I haven’t found a code name yet but I shall call him Bushy for now :). At the middle of the last week Brain called us from Cote d'Azur curious if we are on the schedule that Bushy send Monday last week. Unfortunately Bushy didn’t send the schedule to us (those that should do the actual work) but he send the schedule to Brain only. I asked Brain to forward the schedule to me too to see it myself so I can tell him if we are on the schedule or not. Obviously we were not on schedule so we reschedule the schedule for 1 week later. Now, one week later, we are behind the schedule of course because we didn’t start any task that was on the schedule yet.
Carlos proposed to work on another part of the project. It smelled as procrastination and of course I agreed. We were supposed to finish the scheduled tasks before we will go in vacation. I don’t think this is going to happen. I can’t imagine the surprise on Bernie's face when he will see that we changed the security engine in the project and didn’t work anything that we were actually supposed to do. But hey, we still have 1 day 11 hours 5 minutes and 10 seconds before we are going in vacation. I'll try to motivate Carlos who knows maybe we will have something done by the end of this week and I'll get rid of the guilt feeling that I’m experiencing right now. Fortunately the guilt feeling is suppressed by the trill and the excitement that in less than 2 days I’ll be in VACATION!!!
One year without vacation is taking its toll. Even if I go to bed at a decent hour in the night and I manage to sleep 8-9 hours per night in the morning I feel like I’m hit by a truck. I can’t get up from the bed, my head is spinning and I can’t open my eyes. The alarm clock sounds at 8 AM and I torture myself with at least six 5 minutes snoozes till 8:30. At 8:30 - 8:40 I manage to crawl till the bathroom. At 9 AM I’m usually dressed and ready to go to work. Of course I should have been at work at that hour. Around 9 AM I enter Amaro's room to wake him up. I usually find him sleeping in weird position like he was "hit by a grenade" (© Vony). While Amaro is getting ready I wait in my room, laying on the bed like a whale beached on the shore, looking at Animal Planet (Unfortunately we don’t have the "Tree Channel").
Around 9:30 - 9:40 I and Amaro arrive at the office. Carlos is usually there at that time, well in two out of three of the cases Carlos is there. He seems more wrecked than me. For me the fact that I'm so close to the vacation is giving me demonic strength to work something but for Carlos this is giving him a demonic strength for procrastination.
I want to remind to the readers that from last week only I and Carlos were at the office and everybody else is in vacation. By everybody I mean Brain, Pinky, Bernie and the cool guy from Italy for which I haven’t found a code name yet but I shall call him Bushy for now :). At the middle of the last week Brain called us from Cote d'Azur curious if we are on the schedule that Bushy send Monday last week. Unfortunately Bushy didn’t send the schedule to us (those that should do the actual work) but he send the schedule to Brain only. I asked Brain to forward the schedule to me too to see it myself so I can tell him if we are on the schedule or not. Obviously we were not on schedule so we reschedule the schedule for 1 week later. Now, one week later, we are behind the schedule of course because we didn’t start any task that was on the schedule yet.
Carlos proposed to work on another part of the project. It smelled as procrastination and of course I agreed. We were supposed to finish the scheduled tasks before we will go in vacation. I don’t think this is going to happen. I can’t imagine the surprise on Bernie's face when he will see that we changed the security engine in the project and didn’t work anything that we were actually supposed to do. But hey, we still have 1 day 11 hours 5 minutes and 10 seconds before we are going in vacation. I'll try to motivate Carlos who knows maybe we will have something done by the end of this week and I'll get rid of the guilt feeling that I’m experiencing right now. Fortunately the guilt feeling is suppressed by the trill and the excitement that in less than 2 days I’ll be in VACATION!!!
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