State position. Debate. Break out. State position. Debate. Agree. Repeat.
Pulled my first official all-nighter this week ^_^;;; Started legal negotiations at 6pm on Wednesday, finished 4.30pm on Thursday. No breaks, apart from fifteen minutes for some nasty canteen food at about midnight. And lo, we got the flipping deal done.
I have to say, it wasn't as bad as I was expecting. Around 4am was pretty bad, as was 8am, but once the sun started coming up I got hyperactive instead of exhausted and remained so for the rest of Thursday. It may have been the coffee I was drinking every half hour. And when they went into an interminable technical bit at about Weds midnight, I texted her and she sent me a Georgette Heyer ebook to read on my Blackberry. You'd be amazed how a cheesy Regency romance can make intellectual property rights bearable ^_^
I was fairly perky when we returned to the office to receive the plaudits of our adoring colleagues ('22 hours? Are you MENTAL?', 'Aren't those the clothes you were wearing yesterday?' and 'About time'.) Was fairly energetic when I got home too, until I lay down on the sofa at about 8pm and as soon as I was horizontal I went all woogly. Slept. Like. The. Dead.
And then today we printed and signed the thing, which was a bit of a scramble but got done, thank goodness ^_^ Everyone is being pleasantly congratulatory, in a banking kind of way (this is where you spend ages slogging trying to do something good, and nobody pays any attention, and then you do it, and suddenly everyone is deeply, deeply interested, and has really been involved from the start, y'know). And I never have to stress over that bloody deal ever, ever again o.O
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I might even be impressed in the sort of way one normal is with highly efficient/well organsied/practically insane in their dedication ruga-ruga, paparatzi, political parties or other slightly dubious hordes. Having said that I don't know what the other party were thinking in staying up too or was it that neither wanted to be the first to sleep (or have I totally failed to understnad what was happening- quite possible)? If so may I recomend a device perfected by another highly admirably for its dedication but totaly scary and nasty organsiation (the Politburo in the 1930s) to prevent applause continuing for the rest of the audiences lives (6 weeks if all went well and 2 minutes if they were the first to stop clapping)- a buzzer to announce breaks opperated by a third party. (I would offer AFF as the 3rd party except I've got rid of them and their deffinition of buzzer might have been a tad outlandish.)
On an unrelated note can I remind you to reply to that last e-mail, please? Thank you.
Posted by: The Emperor | April 21, 2007 11:13 AM