Monday Blues

We all experience these Monday blues especially when we came from a great weekend – spent most of the time in bed, watched those tv programs without getting bored, ate enough but good food. And so when Monday comes, you feel lazy to go to work and start the week again.

But this Monday is a different one for me. I was actually looking forward for today! Why? It’s because last week I found out that I have so many to do’s. Haha! So I was excited to start my list and would you believe I woke up before 6am today! (For those who truly know me, 6am is an early wake up time for me). I reached the office at 8am (again, 8am is truly early. I usually arrive at the office 15-30 minutes past 8. Hehe).

Before doing anything, I opened my laptop so that while I do my pre-work stuff (going to powder room, clean my desk, take out my phones, etc.) my weekend emails can be downloaded in my inbox. And guess what? After 1.5hours of waiting, my email is not moving! So I checked my to do’s and started with one that I haven’t completed the week before. Same thing, after more than an hour, it is still running (I am running a calibration update using a mathematical software). I get frustrated because my high hopes for today were faced by the slowness of our server connection…

This is the Monday sickness in our IT system. You will hear from almost everyone a grumble or complaint about the connection speed. The funny thing is we regularly experience this but we still grumble!

For the twist of my Monday story, early today a colleague sent me a very energetic morning greeting through our internal office chat. She doesn’t usually greet me in the mornings so I get excited when I received that message from her. Inspite of the usual Monday blues (and sickness too), she was able to influence a sense of hope again to me. Thanks pal!

I smell the aroma of coffee, almost time for our morning break. I’d better grab a cup of hot coffee while I’m waiting.