On the beach again!

Well here I am, in sunny Dallas, enjoying the "beach" as we call it (for all you non-consultamaniacs...that's what we call it when you're not staffed on a billable project. unless you're at Accenture. where they call it the bench...crazy sports freaks, no wonder Tiger is their spokesman) Anyway, I've taken full advantage of my first two days on the beach. rough life I tell ya. I woke up yesterday, worked for about an hour cleaning up from my last project, went for a run, lifted in the gym, stretched, showered, worked a little more until I was too hungry to continue. Then I cooked myself a breakfast burrito and made an oh-so-delicious peppermint mocha. Then back to the work. Clouds broke up around 2:30 so I headed for the pool to catch a little tan time (what would the beach be without some tanning thrown in???) Came back up, finished up some urgent work issues (yes, from the project I'm no longer on) and had a snack. Broke out the GMAT book and took a practice test. Got a 630 out of 800...not good enough. So planned to study today. Then I caught some TV, did some reading, a little more work, and got myself in bed at a decent time.

today was much the same. Slightly more work, much less GMAT studying...gotta pick that up tomorrow is all. I've pretty much got all of the clean up finished...but there are still people calling me to yell at me about some decision I made (or didn't) so I'll still be dealing with that. but my guess is that won't go away anytime soon. Ah well.

See, the thing is, as long as no one knows you're on the beach, you have time to do all of the extra stuff I'm fitting in around project clean up. It's a pretty nice life. But you can only do it so long. At some point you have to reach out and start helping out with various internal projects...research projects, proposals, firm activities, etc. I had planned to do that tomorrow afternoon or Thursday, depending on how the morning goes with those screaming/yelling phone calls previously mentioned. But then the dreaded happened...staffing found me. The email came, simply titled "Just wanted to check in to confirm that you're available for new projects..." So I had to give myself away. The beach will be but a fond memory very, very soon. Sigh.

So that just means I need to get my act together tomorrow morning and make the most of it. Wrap up the project for good. Pass off everything to the next poor sucker. And get crackin on the GMAT studying while I still have that luxury. Also need to do all sorts of normal life stuff...get my oil changed on the car, clean out my filing cabinets, run all sorts of errands...you get the point. I had really hoped to have all week to do that, but I guess that's the funny thing about work. You kinda have to do whatever they ask you to, at least when it's between doing personal stuff and work stuff on the company dime. Yea.

I know I had something of a little more substance that I wanted to post...but for some reason I'm tired (must be the 2.5 mile run today, or the hour of tanning while studying) and therefore I'm forgetful. Oh well, my goal is to post every day I'm on the beach, because you never know where I'll be sent next and what my schedule will be. So maybe tomorrow will be more important. Ponder that. That's it for now...sweet dreams!