Dear Friday,

How I’ve missed you, my dear friend! What have I been up to since we last met? Let me tell you:

Three of the five days at work were spent at training. While both the material and software were interesting, sitting in a darkened room in front of a computer for hours on end gets wearisome. Especially when your boss is there with you and you can’t access your Blackberry and there’s no Internet connection with which to distract yourself. Not checking Gmail, perusing blogs and reading the newest items in my reader feels so foreign to me.

Of course, while I was at training, e-mails continued to make their way into my work account’s inbox. Which means that I’ll be playing catch up for a good while next week. Thankfully, most of the requests aren’t of an urgent nature. Only about 80% of them were requested to be done this week – as in, 5pm today. What’s that, Friday? I can always catch up next week? That would be true were it not for the fact that I’ll be in training two more days and it’s a four day week. So I’ll have even more time away from the office to let work accumulate.

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