Thank God, it's Thursday!

TGIT!  Thank God, it's Thursday!  That's what we say to each other every Thursday at work.  

While most companies require their employees to report five days a week, ours requires us only to do so three days a week - that's Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  Tuesday and Friday are spent in the library and at home, respectively.  Hence, in our own little office, weekend unofficially begins on Friday.  

This is not to say, however, that we just laze about on Fridays.  On the contrary, Friday is sometimes my heaviest day of the week, because aside from doing weekly reports, I am at times given a PL (patent leader) task in which I have to make search instructions on a particular Study, and then send these instructions to our team of foreign language researchers.  Making search instructions is easy when the topic is related to chemistry, biochemistry, medicine, or molecular biology, because I've been exposed to these fields before.  However, when the topic is computer or communication technology, that's when I really have to sit down and carefully read the study patent.  Thus, my Fridays can be just as stressful as my other days.  The only difference, however, is that I and my officemates work from the comfort of our homes and are thus spared the monstrous Friday traffic jam. 

So, while the rest of the Metro scrambles to go to work and again scrambles to get home from work as soon as possible, we are happily researching away in our homes, sometimes with a plateful of our comfort food beside us.  Ours is a unique work schedule, and never a day goes by when I'm not grateful for it.  

TGIT indeed.

Celebrating the last office day of the week with milk tea.  Photo from DPV3's phone.

Serenitea.  I love these seats! :)

Updates

Goodness!  It's been six months since my last entry, and now that I've realized it, I'm torn between horror (at my laziness to write more often) and amusement at the thought that I've been blissfully immersed in work since September.  

Not that I mind working hard.  I happen to have the one of the most unusual work schedules there is - three office days, one library day, and one work-from-home day - and I also happen to be immensely enjoying both my job and the people I work with.  Having been in my present job for more than a year now, I guess I can safely conclude that one can have a cool job and officemates who are not from hell if only he/she keeps his/her eyes and mind open to such opportunities.  

So what have I been up to for the past six months?  Let's see.  Reading dozens of patents that range from weird to weirder, from wifi to polymerase chain reaction.  Preparing search instructions for the foreign language researchers.  Preparing plenty of reports.  "Papa hunting" in Greenbelt after several hours in the library (yes, I do my library research in a school in Makati).  Going home for the holidays late last year (will post about that later).  Going with the office guys on our first ever out-of-town trip (will write about that, too).  

Until then, stay tuned.  :) 

My McDelivery avatar.  Haha.  So me.