So this past weekend was a 3 day weekend for me. It wasn’t planned in advance because I didn’t know for sure that I could take this Monday off as well. Confused? Let me explain. I am going to conduct training for a group of new hire employees who are in Chennai. But this particular line of business work 6 days a week. Hence I will have to work this Saturday.

As yesterday, Monday, was their orientation program I could take the day off and work Tuesday to Saturday since technically I did not need to work on Monday and I am owed two days off a work week. Since the company (I think most co-orporates do) consider a work week to be Sunday To Monday, I could take Monday off without it being a leave. But I could only confirm this on Sunday evening as the people in Chennai did not confirm anything until Sunday. So I quickly applied to take Monday off as I did not want to work 6 days a week if I could avoid it.

But that also meant that I didn’t plan anything for this 3 day weekend. I was battling a cold so I took plenty of rest. I also did my best to change my sleep pattern – having been working either 6:30 pm to 3:30 am or 7:30 pm to 4:30 am. For the next 2 weeks it’s going to be 8 am to 5 pm and that is tough to change all of a sudden. So I am glad that I had these 3 days to change my wake pattern and wake up early enough on Sunday & Monday to have coffee and breakfast. Onto work now!