Really Busy

Still running on the street... The Sunday City Run is really like a social event, no sweat at all for the 12K route.
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The past few weeks made me re-define the adjective, "busy". I am moving between 2 or 3 sites, one of the location, Fuchu, is 1 and half hour away (4 different type of transportation) to get to from Tokyo. I will spend a couple hours in Shinkawa client site in the morning and jump on my bike rushing to another client's office in Yaesu (15 minute bike away, faster than train or bus). If I am going to Fuchu, I will be working until the last train, normally gettting home around midnight if I don't manage to miss any train.

It was averagely 5 hours sleep at the beginning of the insane commute, I had to wake up like 5:30am such that I can do the run, got back before 6:30, drink my coffee and read news, rushing out by 8am. Returning home around midnight, I only got to recover the missing sleep hours during the weekend. The break of the crazy hours came because the project needs the time to figure out the hardware purchase, and I was drawn to another project.

The other project started in mid summer, the client site is really close to my place, 5 minutes bike to the site. The project is related to a totally new field to me, equity derivatives. Absolutely interesting and challenging. I spent the 2 happy (and hard) months in Tokyo then the nightmare started when my other resting project came back to life.

I am literally torn between 3 sites/projects (one client has 2 separate workstreams). Exhausion came both physically and mentally. The good news is that one of the projects is now delayed to phase 2 since both my company and the client realise the gravity of lacking of resources. It is amazing how hard it is to find people to help out. I phone interviewed a couple of resources and hung up with shaking head. I guess I have to live like this for a while...