Sunday, September 11, 2011

Whew, What a Week.

The last week was positively crazy... It all started because I went home to Vermont last weekend. I decided to try flying instead of driving since it would get rid of 600 miles and 9 hours of time in the car. The plan was to leave directly from work to the airport on Friday night and fly home, spend the whole long weekend at home, fly back to NYC on Tuesday morning, and go straight to work.

The plan worked fine right up to the "go straight to work" part. I landed at the airport at 7:30, and intended to take a bus service that runs straight from JFK airport to Grand Central Station in Manhattan (3 blocks from where I work). I went out to get the bus and it wasn't scheduled to leave until 8:00. I didn't consider this too much of a problem, given my estimate of about a 1 hour ride, I'd still get to work at about 9. Later than I wanted, but by no means late. What I didn't know was that before we actually left JFK, we had to go to every other terminal at the airport to pick people up. So, by the time we actually left the airport, it was 8:30. Additionally, the ride was expected to take about 1 hour and 20 minutes. Add the 10 minute walk to my office, and it was going to be 10:00 by the time I got to work.

From there, everything went as planned and I did arrive at work at 10:00, but I felt absolutely dead. It was only 10am, but I already felt like going to bed. So, the first take away for me from this was: I AM NEVER DOING THAT AGAIN! By the time I got to work, I had been up since 4:00am, flown on a plane, sat on a bus for 2 hours, and ended up 2 hours late for work. I figure that if I drive home I can roll into my apartment at 11pm on a Monday night and be in bed by midnight. I would then wake up at my normal time and get 6 hours of sleep (the same I got before flying), get to work on time, and feel much better through the day.

Anyway, that trip set my week up for a long one. Before arriving for work the first day of the week, I was already exhausted. To add to it, my parents had some business that they needed to deal with in NYC on Thursday, so they came down Wednesday night and crashed at my apartment. This again decreased my sleep and threw off my getting ready for work routine. So, by the time Friday rolled around I was completely wiped and ready to crash. And crash I did. My sleep total for the weekend is 22 hours. I feel much better though.

Here's hoping that this week is a little calmer.

~Alex

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