My deployment in Qatar: Groundhog Day in real life

My day-to-day operations are monotonous. As soon as I wake up I go straight to work. I go to a morning meeting, then I check all of my emails from Tampa and respond fairly quickly to questions and comments from my Tampa bosses. When I finish with my work email I get to check my Facebook and my personal email accounts. Throughout the day I may have a meeting here or there and I may have to call a bunch of people for answers. Sometimes I get an extra duty that I gladly work my heart out for. I thrive on busy work and extra tasks to keep myself from memorizing all of my Facebook friend's wall posts and Twitter messages.

After all of that I stare at the clock until meal time. Meal times are the 2nd most exciting part of my day, getting mail is the 1st most exciting part of my day and pretty much everyone else's day too. All of a sudden I have worked a little over 12 hours and then I get to go back to my room, but wait... what should I do? I get to choose to go to the gym and work out, go to the gym to use the phones, go to my room and watch television, go to my room and do laundry, or go to my room to go to bed.

Mainly I choose to go to the gym, because sitting for 12 hours in front of a computer sort of makes me feel sluggish, especially since I am so used to doing physical activities all throughout the day in Tampa. I spend an hour at the gym, sometimes, and then I hit the showers then off to bed. You would think that I would be in the best shape ever with all of this working out that I do, but the cafeteria here feeds us too well. Tacos, hamburgers, pizza, ice-cream, donuts, lasagna, you name it... we eat it here. Also, the portions they feed us are for the obese. That is another reason why I choose to go the gym, I don't want to go back home to Tampa with extra junk in the trunk.