This massive delay has again been caused by stupid amounts of work. If I thought my last stretch of work got in the way of blogging, I was sadly underestimating how much it could, in fact, get in the way. The last two weeks have been weekdays spent crunching at work pretty much every waking hour outside of showering and breakfast at home. My desire to hit the keyboard on the weekends (outside of more work on the weekends) has been effectively nill.
So as for what's going on, you can probably surmise that there's been much work and little play. This weekend I actually was able to put work away (though I will have a hell of a day tomorrow to get materials ready for a 4pm meeting). Finally, I was able to get some exercise in, which was sorely needed (though left me pretty sore in the end). Yesterday I got a good run in and today I played squash. Unfortunately, I ate enough yesterday to feed me for the weekend and still at some more today. I need to either make the time to work out more or start being at least somewhat cognizant of what I eat. I tend to rely on the exercise to balance my love for food but work has rendered that unfeasible of late. As such, my pants are not fitting so well right now. This project only has a week left so hopefully my next case will be a little more reasonable. Also, the next one should be my last case here in Brazil. I can't believe I have two months left. Two months from today is supposed to be my last work-day in Brazil.
On that note, there is an opportunity to stay here longer shaping up at work. How long and other details are as of yet unclear. I'm putting a lot of thought into the decision, as it is not an easy one. Especially at this point in my career, there are certain implications to the office I choose to be in for the next year or two... I'm not going to discuss where I stand in such an open forum, but it is definitely something on my mind a lot of late. Other than that, there's nothing much to report.
I was with my buddy Pedro today and we drove by Michigan Street, so I jumped out of the car and had him take my picture ... I happened to be wearing a Michigan t-shirt at the time. Cheesy yes, but I don't take enough pictures so why not? Once I get it off my phone I'll post it.
That's about it. I should know my next staffing situation soon - they don't dawdle here getting you going on the next case!
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Way behind ... apologies
Wow - sorry for the delay. It is amazing what happens when you are so busy during the workdays and Saturdays and hung over enough to have no motivation to write. Well, much has gone down since I last wrote.
Got staffed on a new case. Working in the call center biz and I'm staffed locally, which is cool. Was working on this case before we'd even done the final presentation for the other case. This office is crazy busy. The team is great, manager is cool, topic is interesting and the pace is fast. Just arrived in LA for a week of training, which is going to be interesting given the pace of my case back in São Paulo. Something tells me I'll be working during training more this time than NCT.
My brother has been here twice in the last three weeks. He came in for work on a Thursday while I was in Rio but stayed until Sunday. We hung out Friday night through Sunday morning. It was awesome to get to see him. Just had a fun, relaxing time. Went to dinner on Saturday with Pedro and Lia at Brasil a Gosto - awesome restaurant in São Paulo. We ended up going out for a little bit, a little later than planned but we were none worse for the wear. Tyson had to roll out really early the next day.
The following weekend I caught up with Thiago and some of his friends. I hadn't seen them since my first weekend here, and it really was all on me. They'd called once or twice and I was busy, then I just felt awkward calling after time had elapsed. Stupid. What a great group of people. I have since hung out w/ Thiago, Bruno, Bianca and Julio a couple of times. They, as a group, are part of what made me think Brazilian people are so welcoming, and they are very much living up to that. Bianca and Bruno are from Goaina, I think, and understand what it is like to live somewhere w/out family, so they have offered to act as part of my family here. I think that's what happened with Julio too :) I'm down for sure.
Looking at my notes from last weekend at the bar: Don't let the pianist sing. They turn every song into a bad hippie version. Although the band was decent, the sounded like a bad version of my high school band Nedlog (much more talent). They were tarnishing one great song after another.
I arrived in LA for training today. Goes until next Wednesday at which point I'm heading to Chicago. Pretty stoked to 1. be in the US and 2. see a great crew from the Chicago and Toronto offices here for the week.
Promise to be better at keeping up to date.
Got staffed on a new case. Working in the call center biz and I'm staffed locally, which is cool. Was working on this case before we'd even done the final presentation for the other case. This office is crazy busy. The team is great, manager is cool, topic is interesting and the pace is fast. Just arrived in LA for a week of training, which is going to be interesting given the pace of my case back in São Paulo. Something tells me I'll be working during training more this time than NCT.
My brother has been here twice in the last three weeks. He came in for work on a Thursday while I was in Rio but stayed until Sunday. We hung out Friday night through Sunday morning. It was awesome to get to see him. Just had a fun, relaxing time. Went to dinner on Saturday with Pedro and Lia at Brasil a Gosto - awesome restaurant in São Paulo. We ended up going out for a little bit, a little later than planned but we were none worse for the wear. Tyson had to roll out really early the next day.
The following weekend I caught up with Thiago and some of his friends. I hadn't seen them since my first weekend here, and it really was all on me. They'd called once or twice and I was busy, then I just felt awkward calling after time had elapsed. Stupid. What a great group of people. I have since hung out w/ Thiago, Bruno, Bianca and Julio a couple of times. They, as a group, are part of what made me think Brazilian people are so welcoming, and they are very much living up to that. Bianca and Bruno are from Goaina, I think, and understand what it is like to live somewhere w/out family, so they have offered to act as part of my family here. I think that's what happened with Julio too :) I'm down for sure.
Looking at my notes from last weekend at the bar: Don't let the pianist sing. They turn every song into a bad hippie version. Although the band was decent, the sounded like a bad version of my high school band Nedlog (much more talent). They were tarnishing one great song after another.
I arrived in LA for training today. Goes until next Wednesday at which point I'm heading to Chicago. Pretty stoked to 1. be in the US and 2. see a great crew from the Chicago and Toronto offices here for the week.
Promise to be better at keeping up to date.
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