Tuesday madness

Left the house at 7am today. Good thing I delegated the interviewing of new staff to a colleague;  gave me time to do all these other administrative things in preparation for this monitoring visit. Then at noon went to the gym with Rafael – had the hardest workout EVER! It’s a good thing he pushes me to go, otherwise I would have been in the office for 12 hours straight. That is not healthy by any means.

I don’t think we will be going in the middle of the day again though. You never notice the heat until it hits you after the second set of bench press. It was a bit of a struggle.

Came back to the office, rearranged more files on the server, wrote my meeting minutes, sent some emails out. There are a million things to do, my Outlook task list is a bit scary.

Had dinner with Carlos and Rafael at “the Lodge”. Rafael brought a deck of cards so we played a little poker. When and how did we become such addicts? Had the usual “sizzling beef” – it was Cyrille’s favorite. This time it was too salty and they made us paid for the sides (mashed potatoes/fries). What’s up with that?

Carlos is leaving soon, going to Ethiopia. He is trying to get me to leave Mwanza as well. It is true, there’s really nothing for me here, no people anyway. Everyone, or at least most of the people I care about, is leaving Mwanza.

Got home and wanted to do more with my presentation but fell asleep before 10pm. Blame it one the gym. Or age. Or both.