July 31, 2013 — Yomi
July 31, 2013 — Yomi
It’s a miracle! Have been eating well for 3 days now: balanced/regular meals, that is.
Ever heard of a full grown man perpetually in deliberate Starvation Mode?? That’s me. Beats me too! That’s what you get when your job feeds you bowl-full stress on most days and the stress returns the favour by eating up all your appetite.
Thankfully, I get a break sometimes: occasional “triggers” excite me and shoot my appetite up beyond the reach of stress and worries for about a week most times. During these breaks I eat like there won’t be a tomorrow. For your ears only: the “trigger” for the current flow is Lewis Hamilton winning the Formula 1 Hungarian GP last Sunday, his first with the Mercs! Did I just hear you say, “na im be dat,?”. Yes that is it.
“And this eating streak shall last for at least 3 WEEKS.” Amen
Slept early last night (a by-product of my eating roll). And was already with “Alice in Wonderland” when my phone started wailing…This ringing tone is so loud it can wake the dead!
“Yomi… sorry for disrupting your sleep but we have to come in very early tomorrow… The MD wants an urgent update on project blah blah blah and has called a meeting for 9am…Can you start putting something together before tomorrow?…good night”
Good night? Where do I start from? Time check, 11:04pm!
Goodbye sleep. Goodbye, “Alice”…
I drove (my car drove me) into the office at exactly 5:27am. Sleepless night.
8:55am… the update presentation is just about 75% finished. Disaster looming… Two hours and a God-please-send-down-Elijah-with-the-chariot-of-fire-to-take-me-away-from-here tongue-lashing session later, the board gave us a 3-hour break to redo the slides and resume the meeting (tongue-lashing Part 2) by 2pm.
6:50pm and the day is far from ending for my team. Outlook (work-wise) for the rest of the week isn’t positive either. Just A CUP OF COFFEE all-day and definitely not in the mood for dinner either. This will likely happen again tomorrow and the day after…
EATING FLOW HAS ENDED
Perhaps I would get a new “trigger” next week. This time around I would ensure nothing down here or up there will break my new flow…
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