Vegetation

One month on the dot to go before "the last vacation of my life" ends and the madness and insanity that is an MBA begins. But I'm stuck in a rut. I had planned all these things I'd do during this time, but all I seem to be doing is sleeping day and night. They say you are lucky if you get more than 4 hours of sleep a day while doing an MBA (and in my case, probably after too, the creature of habit that I am). So is it humanly possible to survive for two years on four hours or less of sleep a day? Well, people have been doing it for years, so it must be. The question is, is it possible for me? Now, that's a totally different ball game altogether. I have to have my 8 hours of sleep. And I have this uncontrollable and overpowering urge to waste as much of my time as possible. So, when I gaze into the proverbial crystal ball to take a peek into my two years as an MBA student, I see stormy skies and violent seas, with poor ol' me stuck in a boat with a hole in its hull. I think I had better pull up my socks and start valuing time if I am to get out in a single piece out of the odyssey that a management education is. Let us all pray and hope for me.

So what all had I planned to do this month? Well, topping the list was reading the 'n' number of novels that I've got on my computer. I'm in the middle of "Catcher in the Rye", then there's "Atlas Shrugged", "The Bourne Identity", "The Bourne Supremacy", "The Bourne Ultimatum", "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", "The Day of the Jackal", "Catch 22", "And One flew over the Cuckoo's nest", "Lord of the Flies", "Bag of Bones".....they just keep coming. It's enough to keep one busy for a month I'd say, but sitting all day long staring at a Cathode Ray Tube Display is hardly my idea of a "vacation". Then there was the noble idea of re-joining the gym and going swimming to lose all the flab I've regained during the past few months. I do go to swim every morning, but somehow am unable to bring myself to pay a visit to the house of fitness.

So I end tonight, hoping to do something better and more constructive with my time tomorrow.