One of the side effects of working in this industry is that is has a huge effect on your mentality. One of the most evident effects on this was when I went on vacation. The day after arriving in Lisbon Lu & I went with some friends to a festival down the coast.
I can't say that I get really excited about going to festival's; I certainly enjoy camping, I also enjoy spending time with a group of friends with nothing more to do than chill out, drink beer and watch some bands playing but something to do with being forced to do all of this within, literally, spitting distance of hundreds of other people tends to dampen my anticipation. Having said this, once I am there, set up and into my 3rd beer I tend to be much more affable and relax into the atmosphere.
But this time I found myself in somewhat of a state of shock at suddenly being surrounded by so many humans. The most people I had really seen in the last 4 month had generally been about 2 with a few exception when I was back in town for a couple of days. So for literally the first day I glued myself to Lu and tailed her around lost puppy style. The other difference was my desire to head to bed early. After a few weeks of getting woken up at any time day or night and pulling 24h shifts my body finally had a chance to go to bed at a normal time and was complaining a lot about staying up more. Looks like im turning into an old fogey after all...
I can't say that I get really excited about going to festival's; I certainly enjoy camping, I also enjoy spending time with a group of friends with nothing more to do than chill out, drink beer and watch some bands playing but something to do with being forced to do all of this within, literally, spitting distance of hundreds of other people tends to dampen my anticipation. Having said this, once I am there, set up and into my 3rd beer I tend to be much more affable and relax into the atmosphere.
But this time I found myself in somewhat of a state of shock at suddenly being surrounded by so many humans. The most people I had really seen in the last 4 month had generally been about 2 with a few exception when I was back in town for a couple of days. So for literally the first day I glued myself to Lu and tailed her around lost puppy style. The other difference was my desire to head to bed early. After a few weeks of getting woken up at any time day or night and pulling 24h shifts my body finally had a chance to go to bed at a normal time and was complaining a lot about staying up more. Looks like im turning into an old fogey after all...
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