@Walter Hinteler,
well, i worked till around 9pm most of the days this week anyway. except today, i finished at 5pm and my head is a bit light and dizzy off the bubbly.
we had 2 big project proposals due today. Altogther for 1 million Euro. So... that was a lot of work between me and a colleague. We did it in two weeks.
We still had some things to finish today, and got to printing the proposals (4 copies, one of 130 pages, the other 165) at around 3pm. They were hand-delivered at 5 o'clock in the most amazing team work fashion. While the second was still printing, the first went by bike with S.
M. and me were hole-punching and binding the second one in the meantime . J. went to get his car and waited for us downstairs. I ran downstairs with 4 copies of the second proposal. That was at 4:45pm. Car battery was dead (somehow the light stayed on while he was waiting for us and that was enough to kill the car), the engine wouldn't even give us a cough.
So I ran upstairs, grabbed M. who lives closeby, and together we ran some decent distance to her house. At about 5 minutes to 5pm (the deadline of deadlines), J. mounted M's bike and set off for the foundation. He made it. M and I stopped at a little food store, picked up "vlais" (great fluffy cake with cream) and champagne and before 6pm we were all celebrating. I'm exhausted but pretty happy. I am working at a really great place with wonderful people (some a little too wonderful, but half my age, so nevermind).