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Take the most high pressured, inefficient, chaotic and serially disastrous day of your working life.

Now multiply it by Egypt.

That was my day. 48 hours, actually - two crashed email systems, a dead phone, traffic jams, misunderstandings, translation issues, an all nighter, two hours of sleep and a wedding later I finally fell asleep while working in my hotel room, only to wake up three hours late and find my computer on the floor with half the screen smashed.

On the bright side, it all turned out well. The highlight has to be this quote from my colleague at 3:30 in the morning:

'I always thought that cabinet-level documents regarding issues of national importance would be written by specialized lawyers or people who know what they're talking about... and not two sleep-deprived consultants, one of whom has only been on the project for three days.'