Last week was hellish. And its aftermath is still lingering now since I am sick. Given that the auditing aka the annual inspection by the local congressmen is around the corner (Nov 10), my team had to prepare a lot of paper to turn into to them. A lot.. about 1,000 pages. So, about seven of us has been meticulously and painstakingly working on the prepping the paper work. And it has gotten worse since we were approaching the doomsday.
Thursday-
I remember starting the day pretty fine. Nothing unusual or out of ordinary. However, the person in charge of the auditing went home early yesterday (Wednesday) In the meantime, some congressmen asked for some additional paperwork, which turned out needing a lot of labor. So, with the person gone, the team squandered Wednesday. She came back to work Thursday and finally realized how immense the paperwork requested by the lawmakers was and doled it out to the rest of us. And, this eventually kept everyone as late as 11pm at work. Ergo, I could not go to the gym.
Friday-
Tired as hell, I punched in. The paperwork prep continued without doubt. However, there was a twist to today.
Earlier, some idiotic lawmaker released an article on a local newspaper how inefficient the budget-usage has been in the organization. With a lawmaker in the congress, it won't be conducive to secure the amount of budget for next year, the people high up decided to draw up some stats and analysis and visit the lawmaker to talk him into some sense and persuade him to revise his views. So around 3pm, which was about 3 hours before the punch out, my boss asked me to drive up to the most Northern part of the region so that we can meet up the lawmaker. Being a docile worker, I said yes. I could have said no, but I always thought that his audit prep is the last thing I will commit myself to at this organization.. so I did not turn down his suggestion.
By the time we arrived, it was about 5:30. And my boss and his boss (2nd in Command) met up with the congressman and decided to eat. So, I ate alone, crashed at the car while listening to some radio show.. which was quite nice.. But the waiting got longer than I thought it would. I waited about 4 hours in the car. By the time, they were done eating, it was around 9pm. So much for workout tonight as well.
Of course, my boss was drunk as hell. According to him, the talk was fine and he had to consume a series of soju + beer bomb shots all along. Poor guy.
While coming back to Suwon, he talked A LOT about me. He may be trunk, but he was not senseless or anything. The whole time, he's been talking up to. He told me how capable I am and he would like me to stay at the organization longer.. and he'd put in a good word to the ceo of my company that I am going back to at the end of this year. The whole time, I just agreed.. and nodded at whatever he was saying in order not to go against him or piss him off. I felt somewhat bad for him.. He actually had a family gather that night so some of his relatives actually already gathered in Suwon and were having a great time without him. He told me NOT to come to work on the weekend. I dropped him off at where his relatives were and came back to the office where I saw the rest of the team still working. Geez... After like 15 mins, I punched out.. came home and passed out.
Saturday, knowing that I did not have to go to work, I still did. However, before that I went to the gym and made up for what I have been missing. Pacs,, back, shoulder, legs....for about a full 2 hand a half hours. It was exhausting and yet felt really good to be back at the gym after two day long absence.
After short lunch, I came to work. Two people (including the one in charge of the auditing prep) were there. I made it clear that I needed to punch out around 4. She gave me an easy assignment. I took care of it and without any hesitation I went home.
Maybe it was because I felt so much relieved after 3 day long toiling. I somewhat felt not good. I cooked some pork.. rice. I knew I was going to feel sick next morning. After watching some tv shows, I have saved, I went to bed.
Sunday
And of course, I felt ill. It was somewhat a combination of a sore throat, body aching, general fatigue and what not. Just lay in bed all day...had some hot soup, veggies, oranges, chewable vitamin tablets.. chips.. Sometime in the afternoon, I felt somewhat better, so barely got up and cleaned the apartment, did laundry. Phew.
Then, it backfired and I felt worse. So just laid in bed helplessly.
Monday
I hope I would get better, but not quite. I am still sick and fatigued. I think I need to skip the gym. On my way to lunch, I picked up 육개장 (beef broth). While eating it at home, I perspired like a pig. My body must be doing really bad.. considering I rarely sweat no matter how spicy the food I have.
And now it is almost 2pm. I hope I go home at 6pm. I will probablly not go to the gym, but pick up the same dish that I did at lunch and just sleep in. I so badly want to feel better.
3 more days until the end the auditing. Thursday night, it will be all over.
