Final Count Down

It's on.

Two weeks till we land in Mumbai. Two more more Mondays in the office but only one more Tuesday. This is the perfect distance from now till D-day as to maximize the Vorfreude.

The sweet feeling of emails flying around that should say: "could you please do this awful and boring thing for us and rather fast, but be aware this will be your life from now until this pointless and mind numbing project ends" but instead they say "since you will be gone, do you mind finding a victim whom to bore to tears with these mind numbing tasks that you will be unable to do".

That's the opposite of the "yay, it's my birthday in three weeks and we are doing the most amazing things ever and it will be sunny and will you please come along" email to which I need to respond "sorry and damn the man for your birthday being when it is and not a week earlier". Given that I am researching beaches in Goa I am not too bummed but there are some major events this summer with the high point being a wedding in Italy that I am thoroughly upset to miss, but there you go again with that cake and eating it too.