I am just spent. It has been two straight nights of networking and chasing leads. I’m so depleted. At 1 am I was still working; I finished a draft but later I decided to pull out that story because of a recurring problem with one of the reporters in my team.

Wait, my brain is already shutting down.

Wednesday, I drove to Makati to check into Red Planet Amorsolo in Makati because I don’t want to be driving back and forth for two straight days.

After checking in, I fetched Kr and drove to Ortigas for the dinner-Xmas party of one conglomerate. Had to chase some leads and got some useful info. But the best part is I got to see friends from the industry and unexpectedly, I saw K, my friend from a rival news agency.

Drove back to Makati with some friends who hitched a ride. I still had to write stories until 1 am for editing in the morning.

I couldn’t sleep because of the amont of caffeine in my system. I only got an eyeshut at 3 am. 🥴 For some reason it was an uncomfortable sleep. Maybe it was the aircon. Maybe it was the bed—I don’t know. I was in between throwing the duvet because I was sweating and curling up under it because I was cold.

I may be experiencing perimenopause symptoms! 😱

Then I got a call from a source at around 7-ish. My brain was still cloudy at that time.

I couldn’t really go back to sleep after that. So I went back to draft more stories and have more calls. I was a few mins late checking out of Red Planet. The nice thing about that location is that there was a nearby authentic Chinese restaurant, which looked like its original clientele is the POGO workers.

Then I drove to Glorietta 5 to buy myself a black dress and work at Uniqlo coffee shop before jumping to Hyatt.

After I depleted my social battery late last night, I tried to keep still at the lobby because age really is catching up on me. I had to sit down before driving all the way back home. I wasn’t able to have coffee so it was a struggle keeping myself alert driving along SLEX.

I was just dead the rest of the day today. My noble plan to draft more stories today has died.