It's 1023 PM Thursday night. I'm up trying to write and my eyes are closing.
Deja vu. How many times have I done it this year. Open up my homework on Thursday evening (due in class on Friday), work very late into the night and get hardly 2 hours of sleep because I had to be at the bus station at 530 AM in order to be at school on time. The one difference tonight is that I won't be staying up that long. A) I've got to finish writing this by midnight in order to be considered today's piece and B) I have already done the late into the night last night so I am not going to repeat it today. Also given that tomorrow is Christmas eve and it's a Holiday and there is no homework due at 845 AM. I'll probably not even be awake by then...
Let me talk about last night for a moment. I slept at 415 AM (this morning technically). I had decided earlier this season that just before the Holidays, I would send all my colleagues who helped me in my job this year a personal message to thank them for their support. It would be a way of showing my gratitude and the best way to close the year personally. I've been working on it for over a week now but never got to it given cartloads of work during the week and the trip to Boston over the weekend. Monday and Tuesday evening this week did not lend themselves to this either and when I got off work last evening, it looked like the perfect time to get it done.
Murphy's law took control of my life at the exact same moment and I had to do 2 trips to my son's Karate Class and to the Indian grocery store, courtesy having run out the door without my wallet the first time. And then when I came back, I had to get dinner and then help my wife clean up the kitchen as she was unwell and that was the least I could do for her. The good part was, I still felt good after all that work. The curtains were drawn and I joined my son in bed armed with my laptop. I had a few work items to take care of and that took me to 11 PM. Then came last nights blog (part 1). And a little after midnight, still feeling good, I embarked on this task.
I went on and on and the next thing I know, it was 415 AM. But I felt on top of the world when I had it done. Not only because I had done a good deed but had retained the energy and focus to get it all done despite it being a big stretch. I started this year promising myself that I will take stretch goals and achieve them and here I was, at it again. What added more joy to it was that this was really the first time after the completion of my MBA that I was doing this. I could have really done this over the weekend, but I would have missed the timing. Christmas is Saturday.
I had a perfect day today. I was up at 745 AM, logged in to my first phone meeting at 8 and did everything like clockwork till it was 10 minutes to 5 PM. After a cup of coffee to energize myself, I slept. I have been active again since 6 PM, cleaning up the house, visiting our negihbours who just had a baby boy, dinner and then cleaning up. It's 11 PM now and Home Alone 2 just got over on ABC Family's 25 Days of Christmas movies. And I'm looking good for another long night, with only one difference.
The screen I will be looking at tonight made by a company called Samsung, is 32 inches long measured diagonally, emits a multitude of bright colors and moving images.
It is the most wonderful time of the year...
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