Another full-on weekend with NZMSA Exec face-to-face up in Auckland. After the initial novelty of flying across the country for work wears off, you start to realise how tiring these (what essentially are) business meetings really are. Both Saturday and Sunday are completely taken up by the meeting and Saturday night is the Exec dinner, so you're not left with any free time at all. I took a teeny bit of study to do just in case I had an opportunity to sit down and do some reading for a couple hours, but alas the chance never came up. The quality sister-sister time was awesome though and helped me forget just how exhausted I was. Plus, I got to catch up with another good friend of mine who coincidentally happened to be in Auckland at the time as well; a lot of reflecting on the 22-years-old-ness of our lives, lol. One thing I need to work on: less coffee. These weekends are always a painful reminder that I am one of those coffee drinkers.
Domestic travel in NZ is almost unbearable though, especially when you live right at the bottom of the country. I left Kirsty's place in the city at 7.45am this morning and got home by 1pm; with delays and connecting flights, it took me five+ hours for a trip that would have taken an hour on a direct flight. Oi. The things we do to save money.
I hate that I'm already well in to the second half of my break. I haven't achieved nearly as much as I had planned/need to, but what's worse is I don't really feel that refreshed either; I feel like I've been working and working, but have achieved little at all. *sigh* Not to mention catching up with the Exec always has a way of making me feel like I don't work nearly as hard as I should... which has me on the verge of catastrophising once again about the end of the year, but I am determined not to let this mind game get the better of me: no more of this defeatist attitude! No more!
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