One Great Big Sigh of Relief.

Units of Alcohol: 0, Slices of Pizza: 6, Cups of Tea: 25, Radio Executives: 5, Circus photographs: 180 (edited down from 600), Hours of Overtime: 29.5.

I apologise once again for my blogging neglect but really and truly, I have a good excuse. After I organised a radio station circus (with a little help from an actual circus and one kick ass project manager ;) ) and got over 600 photographs, the hard work of actually putting together the related document kicked in. In case you're all lost, I was working on a licence tender document for a radio station which is basically a request to set up shop in a particular region. There's only one licence on offer at a time and the various radio entities all vie for it trying to out do the other contenders by producing a more amazing tender request.) Since the content for this document only showed up on Monday, it was literally, a circus in my office all week long culminating in a 20 hour work day on Friday that didn't wind down until half three in the morning followed by a 10 hour Saturday in the office getting all the artwork ready for print and designified. There was much stress, a bit of drama (as is the way when yer office is full of execs who have more money than God and know it). There were a few laughs, a few scares, one cartwheel (I was overtired, you can't blame me.) There was extreme overtiredness and tea and bicuits at three am when we finally got sign off on the content and lastly but definitely not leastly, there was 14 hours spent in my bed catching up on sleep last night followed by one extremely long and extremely hot shower.

Now that this baddie is out the door and gone to print, I feel like I've just been released from a passionate (yet destructive) love affair ;), a whirlwind romance where we met under auspicious circumstances, we flirted, there was that first kiss, the first fight, there were promises made and promises broken, there were tears, there were triumphs and at the end of the day, we parted, how could it be any other way?! and yet we left the closest of friends... And now. I'm a new woman and god, there's just so much time to not have to think about pagination and colour balance and the negative vs. the positive merits of clown imagery on the marketing intentions of the brand... haha. I'm free. Now I can officially turn my energy towards an upcoming holiday that for me, here, doesn't actually exist. Despite that unalterable fact which means that I will be at work next Thursday like every other ex-pat, I am organising a little 'Giving for the Thankless this Saturday which will involve lots of cooking and cooking of large, meaty birds. Since I've always had my Gourmet parents to turn to for large holiday feasts and I am for all intents and purposes a semi-vegetarian, I have never in my life attempted to cook a turkey... all I know is that you stick it in the oven and baste it sometimes... Well, it can't be harder than putting together a 400 page licence tender document can it?