Mission Impossible

After just 3 days training the new team between 9h-15h, then working with Paris between 1530h-22h, before clocking in another 3 -4 hours of preparation time for the next days training its pretty clear that this isn't just a large project, its pretty much Mission Impossible given that i'm running it as a 1 woman show.

My life has been stripped down to the absolute minimum. The minimum amount of time it takes to have a shower, the minimum amount of time in which an email or phone call can be handled, in order to maximise the possible amount of time left in which to sleep. At the moment i'm managing about 4-5 hours of sleep a night and so needless to say i'm exhausted.
Its also obvious that i'm not going to be able to keep this rhythmn up for very long so i'm hoping someone in Paris is right now hooking up with those Christian Scientists and getting Tom Cruise choppered in to help me out.


When i'm really stressed and/or tired its a long hot bath that usually helps me put myself back together again and so all week i've been dreaming of this:



so I dragged myself out of bed this morning in order to spend a huge amount of money on a 3 month spa membership promising a range of relaxing and repairing baths, massages and treatments. This is the first time i've ever spent this much on such a luxury, but i'm hoping the financial investment will force me to at least partake in at least an hours pure R&R once a week.


I also managed at somepoint this week to pop by the People's Republic of China Resource Building and pick up my 3 month visa:


all I need to do now is find time to go!


There are two other things i've been trying to slot in around all this work:

a) Learn Cantonese... I've only spent about 30 mins with the CDs and the book so progress is almost non-existant.

b) Continue with Riddley Walker.
Here i'm doing better than with Cantonese in that i've probably managed a page or two each night before I fall asleep. The language is tough but its roughness help add to the imagery of the post nuclear planet and communities.

Its funny also in that Friday turned out to be a pretty nuclear day.
I drempt about a HK post 'the big 1' (no doubt influenced by Walker). Then during the day I read about how the USA had posted on the web documents from Iraq that could be used to build an atomic bomb (very smart those Yankies).
Finally whilst eating dinner I watched a programme about a guy who'd photographed atomic bomb shelters.
He explained that some states and countries were so paranoid about the A-bomb back in the 80's that they built more than enough shelters to house all their peoples. Therefore if you do ever find ourselves in a Riddley Walker-esque world its very likely your fellow survivors will be the Isreali's, the entire population of Switzerland, most of Texas, Cheney, Bush and the cockroachs.
Personally in the event of all out nuclear war i'll follow the advise of the SAS survivors guidebook:

a) dig a hole
b) stand in it
c) put your head between your legs
d) kiss your ass goodbye

I just hope I get to get my money's worth out of that spa membership before either Korea or Iran finish downloading those docs !