The week that never ends, the paper that never ends

We had a group presentation on Accor, the company that runs the Mercure, Ibis and Sofitel hotel chains in Europe and other locations throughout the globe, on Monday and I and my colleagues have been tackling a final report that we have to submit this Tuesday. No matter how much time we seem to spend on it, the report refuses to be finished and it looks like we will have to work late until the deadline on Tuesday.

Part of it comes from the fact that some sections of the report were written without citing evidence to support the arguments and so I and a couple of the main actors in our group have had to search all over the Web for evidence one way or another to support the assertions made in those sections. Add to those tasks editing the whole report (English being a second language for half the team) and you have a recipe for a time-consuming disaster.

After spending all morning and all early evening on the paper, like this past Tuesday, I went out for a beer at a pub about five minutes walk from my place. One of my classmates, a Russian guy who enjoys watching soccer, joined me at the pub and we watched Lyon demolish Marseilles in front of a full house at Marseilles (more on that in another entry, I think).

Now I'm back working on the report, a little bit refreshed from not having to think about it for an hour or so ...