Grrr. Argh.

Nothing like a mindless middle management meeting to totally derail your day and squeeze you dry of any last desire to do anything productive.

I was having such a decent Monday before that too: had a good meeting out of the office in the morning, and it's always nice to get out of the office on a Monday; had a pretty good lunch with a colleague whom I hadn't really had the opportunity to get to know before this; had the good fortune to maintain a low profile all day and avoid the boss who was in a bad mood.

Now I'm just braindead and glad that I only have another two and a half days in this workweek. Why, you may ask? Well, Friday's Deepavali (aka Diwali aka the Hindu Festival of Lights), and Thursday afternoon I'm off work and we have Plans. So there is (faint) light at the end of this week's tunnel, for which I am already insanely grateful.