Im not to get into details now, but suffice it to say that Ive been running a massive sleep deficit since last Saturday when I got home at 3am and realized that I had to catch a 920am flight from London to Zurich. Working backwards from 920, with the hour that you want to arrive before the flight and another hour to get to Heathrow and at least 30 minutes to get up, pack, shower, shave, check out, I was looking at a 650am wake up call.

I couldnt get to sleep right away (by the way, in case you were wondering, I cant figure out how to make apostrophes on this Spanish keyboard), I got maybe 3 hours, if Im lucky. I dont sleep on planes much so no catching up en route to Switzerland. I arrived around noon. I could have taken a nap, but it was too nice of a day and Im congenitally disposed to exploring new places so I wandered around Zurich all day, caught the WC matches on a big screen in the middle of town.

I had to get up really early to get ready, press my clothes, find my way to train station and meet my counterpart in Basel, more than an hour away. Then days of the exact same, exept we would eat dinner in Basel and talk about work. It gets dark late and before you know it, its 1030pm and you have find the tram to train station, an hour on the train back to Zurich, 10-15 minutes on the tram to the hotel and the overnight guy laughs as you stroll into the hotel at 1230am and request a 530 wake up. You are joking, he says to me. I wish.

No rest for the weary back in London. The conference I was attending was too social and I couldnt not go out in London on Friday, especially my buddy Jacks wife was off in Italy and was free to bar hop. Now in Barcelona, any (dis) illusion that I had about catching up on my sleep here went by the wayside last night as I was up until 5 in the morning drinking and talking to my former counterpart and all around cool guy, Marco.

Im just going to have to give into the idea that Im going to be feeling like a malnutrished zombie for the next week or so. Its far more appealing to catch up on sleep in say, Emeryville, than it will be in Amsterdam, Paris or Madrid.