It is one of those days again. Your co-worker catches a flu. And then you get it. And it continues. And just when I was day dreaming about warm spring and cherry blossoms, there is snow, hail and winds coming from nowhere. What is this? New York or Snowville?
Never mind. You know how you take those sedatives and suddenly nothing around seems important with a nasty cold that drives you crazy? Sleep seems the most important thing to do. And as if that was so much fun, I decide to do Tabata today. For those who don't know what the hell that is...well, its best unspoken. You can google it I guess, if you are dying to find out (which you are not, is my guess). Its simply said, 30 minutes of near-death exercise. The kind where you know you are about to die in the name of physical endurance. LOL. That too when you are sick. Not cool Manju. NOT COOL. Anyway I kept at it, and looked all glorious in sweat and triumph, smiling end to end. Only to come back to my work desk and waiting to binge it out. I look up at the TV and CNBC predicting stocks and all those timezone billboards on the floor suddenly make me nauseous. Why do I care what the time is in Hongkong or Sao Paulo? I look around me, everyone typing into their keyboards, staring at their widescreen triple monitors. I mean it is really funny, humans are made for unitasking, yet we hurl ourselves into half a dozen screens. Does that really help our focus?
Then I rummage thru my desk drawers and pull out a surprise dark chocolate coconut bar. Great. The only thing that got me excited for today. And you know how the average programmer gets oh-so-confident about his/her code. Yeah, thats right, that was me today. But somewhere my little voice spoke up and said, just give that regtest (regression test) one last shot, just to "be safe". Ah whatever, I pressed a key while munching on my new found chocolaty goodness. And baaam! Suddenly a whole lot of null pointer exceptions sneak in from nowhere. That SOB! My code was supposed to be nullpointer-proof! Well, well, wakey wakey Manju. Mediocrity is yelling at you right now. Sigh. I fix it and run with it and deploy it. Time to get a cup of hot water for that sore throat - silly cold. You know whats the most annoying thing about common cold? Makes it hard to breathe fresh air! So hard. *Sniff*
You can make it hard to breathe, but you cant take the day dreaming off my eyes, you nosy cold. LOL.
And just like that, I am returning to my "can-do-it-at-night" day dreaming;)
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