It’s amazing how quiet things are in the office the day leading up to a long weekend.  People are so eager to finish the day early that not much gets done, which sort of perpetuates the whole situation.  After all, why stick around when you’ve finished up your work for the week?  And so it goes, usually with no more than a half day’s worth of work accomplished before everyone packs up and heads out.  Unfortunately for me, I do my weekly reports on Fridays and they always take up quite a bit of time.  Many a time I’ve been the last one left on a Friday night and today I was determined to not let that happen again.

Thankfully, I didn’t have too much work to do besides the report, which takes about 3-4 hours to compile.  It didn’t help that our CTO brought in a Justin Bieber DVD to play, which was at once annoying and distracting.  I can only handle so much tween screaming before getting a major headache!  I was relieved when that was finally over and I was nearing the end of my report.  It was almost 4 PM and there was light at the end of the tunnel!

Ah, American holidays.  It’s so rewarding to get a long weekend to recoup after months of the daily grind.  I’ve hardly even gotten to rest on the weekends since there’s just so much to do.  Hopefully I can catch up on some rest this weekend, what with no GMAT class or events to attend.  Still, Panda’s in town so I want to do some things with him and of course we want to try to meet up with some friends before he jets off again.  I’m glad we have the extra time!