Travels

So it's the beginning of a series of trips.

Two Saturdays ago, I drove to Columbus. The trip is 2.5 hours long either way, and I made the to and fro journeys on the same day, spending 6 hours with a lady I know there. I did the same this Saturday. In effect I haven't had a single Saturday off in a long time.

I was so exhausted on my return to Twinsburg each time, that I simply fell on my bed and slept until Sunday afternoon. The Sundays I spent reading or browsing the internet, or cleaning my house (in other words, doing nothing tangible).

To complicate matters, I had a rough day at work yesterday. I had a terrible meeting, and I was woefully underprepared for it. It was a big lesson for me.

As though that's not enough, I am flying out to oklahoma on Friday the 2nd July, returning the 5th July, then flying out to Arkansas on the 6th July, returning on the 9th July and then traveling to Columbus on the 10th July. The good news is that my plant is shut down until the 20th July. That would normally be unqualified good news (stay at home, have time to explore the area, etc). But, I have a class on the 13th July, my birthday, and I have to give a training class on the 15th July. And I might be going back to Columbus on the 17th July. What does this all mean? It means that I substantively have no break from now until the end of the shutdown. Add to that the stress of planning my sister's wedding (from a continent away) and the fact that somewhere amidst all these things I have to travel to Nigeria in late August, and you can imagine how overwhelmed I feel at the moment.

Not to mention that my plant has a massive audit some time in September, and if we fail this audit, it will come right unto my boss and myself. I am really nervous at the moment, but if I have picked up anything over the past few years, it's that everything will even out. I just have to wait.

P.S: I got my hepatitis and HIV results back. Phew. Regardless of how clean you are, you always wonder, no?