crunch time

i have to be at work in 8 hours. that's no good.
didn't get to sleep much last night because we were at the yacht late and then had a project to work on.

today we kept mystery shopping. the salespeople in UAE are much less friendly than in US. i found myself putting out effort to maintain the conversations in the showroom. it was bizarre. i almost missed the sharks from back home. tomorrow we have to create, administer, and analyze a focus group, and then add what we find to our mystery presentation. we are presenting to the head auto honchos and word is they don't take kindly to criticism, constructive or otherwise.
we have to show up early to get all of this stuff done, so by presentation time i will be running on empty.

then after work, i am going over to a mentee's house for dinner. soham isn't actually here in dubai right now, but his parents are, so i am going to dine with them. i look forward to the dinner very much, but i am worried that i will have 0 energy left to be social. majid might come, but in any case it should be good.
affffter dinner we are then gonna go back to the boat, or i will meet up with them. we are plan to sleep over there (hopefully we will take it out too? although it may be too late) and it is aziz's last wknd in dubai so we will have some people over. should be fun, we were jet skiing at night yesterday, which was really cool (and prolly super safe too).

today aziz, ali, majid, and i went to the mall. majid wanted to get some louis vitton sandals, but they didn't have the right kind in stock. so he bought a couple $k's worth of camera gear instead. he is actually a really good photographer, he has been taking pics over the week & i am trying to get them from him to put up here.
after the mall, we went back to majid's house for dinner. we ate with hamad and omar, and omar gave us some more pointer's on the biz. that guy seems to be working 24-7- seriously intense. then we tried to work on our presentation for tomorrow, but instead we just swapped stories about paris and majid filled me in on the politicks of the al futtaim group. word is that the brits are out and aussies are in. but is there a future for americans?
okk i'm gonna call my bros to wish them a happy graduation ( i am missing mik's high school graduation, grady's 8th grade, and liam's 5th grade, plus the MEGA-doyleson gazebopalooza, quel dommage!!) and then crash.