It spilled over into my holidays, given that it was supposed to be done and over on Friday and that we still had to tie a few loose ends over the past two days. It's been a pretty intense few weeks for me to negotiate the whole package. The big break was earlier this month, when I finally got the approval to do the deal, after a tough internal fight, but then getting the deal done still required a lot of time-intensive work.

Now I need to negotiate a bonus from a taxpayer-funded employer...

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes