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The week days are the same old, Sunday to Saturday. In Harare, we are having longer days and shorter nights but, they still add up to 24 hours. I mean, it is the same old routine - an eight to five job during the week and two short weekend days to relax, waiting for the next cycle. Being Sagittarius, I am not only bored but deeply agitated. I drove past the golf club at exactly 0743 a week ago and I could see a few guys playing golf already, on a Monday and I was going to work. It dawned on me without much thought that life, inasmuch as it is unfair, is hard. I have worked as an assistant to a man in his sixties who, in confidence, revealed it to me that he had been doing that very same job for over 29 years. He had gone through a routine for that long and the good stories he used to tell never happened in the office. He had fond memories of what he experienced when he travelled or did anything random. It is my birth month so I think it is my own fears that are making me quest...