I wish I was a morning person. Someone who gets up early and gets stuff done before the day even starts. Someone who exercises before work. But nope, I am not a morning person. I might occasionally get up really early to use the toilet - but then I just crawl back into bed. And then I might not get up until after 9 am, even on week days. But the new project I'm working on means that I need to change my patterns. I now have one or two meetings a week that begin at 8 am. Not good. This is courtesy of working with colleagues on both the east coast and - joy of joys - my first time working with our outsourcing team in India. Sometimes I struggle to always understand my Chinese colleagues in teleconferences, but I've got to say that Indians are a lot worse - there was someone on this morning's call who I couldn't understand a word of what she was saying even though I think she was speaking English. Perhaps it was because I was still half-asleep. But it doesn't bode well for this project going forward.
