At a Loose End

Posted on 2009/01/31 10:32:59 (January 2009).

[Friday 30th January]
I'd mentioned to a colleague at work that I'd worked through most of the previous weekend, and he'd said he didn't think that really paid off in the long run - by the end of the following week you tend to be worn out and unproductive. I think there was definitely some truth in those words. Whilst I think I'd put in a Herculean effort on Monday of this week, from then on my productivity seemed to take a definite downward spiral. Wednesday had been spent fire fighting, and I've generally found the sense of panic on days like that is a good motivator, but after that the last couple of working days of this week had certainly not been among my most productive. I found myself tinkering with things and finishing off odd loose ends rather than getting my teeth into anything substantial.

So I think a proper rest is very much in order this weekend.

I'd originally half planned to meet up with my friend Michelle in the evening, but ultimately that never really materialised. So at the end of the working day, after a short time at the usual beer-and-pizza thing, I just headed home. However, Chie had a couple of her friends round, and I felt a bit in the way, so I took the rather unusual step of going back to work for a bit. I wish I could say I was incredibly productive in those few hours I spent at the office, which might otherwise have been frittered away in a pub somewhere, but in reality I ended up just doing more tinkering, and poring over charts and graphs, trying to make some sense of the crazy mass of numbers which collectively make up my job.

I eventually headed home around 10:30, Chie's friends were still there so I attempted to make myself scarce, to the extent that this is possible in a one bedroom flat.

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