A slow English story about Back to work after the visit, meetings, a backlog, and just directing my AI assistant. 14 simple sentences. Word by word. About 14 minutes.

📝 Today's sentences

① Yesterday I saw my friend off. He flew back to China.

② I wanted to go back to China too. But as an adult, it's time to go back to work.

③ Because of my three days off, my work piled up. Now I've got a huge backlog.

④ This morning I had three meetings back-to-back.

⑤ One with QA, one with our contractor in India, and our team standup.

⑥ So I got nothing done all morning.

⑦ After lunch, I finally got into work mode.

⑧ I went through my email, tickets, and team channel.

⑨ I replied to every message, one by one.

⑩ Then I sorted out my priorities.

⑪ I synced up with my mentor.

⑫ And then it was back to my day-to-day coding.

⑬ Well, really, I just told my best assistant Claude what to do.

⑭ I'm basically a prompt engineer now.

🔑 Vocabulary

• saw my friend off /sɔː maɪ frend ɔːf/

• piled up /paɪld ʌp/

• backlog /ˈbæklɒɡ/

• back-to-back /ˌbæk tə ˈbæk/

• contractor /ˈkɒntræktər/

• standup /ˈstændʌp/

• got nothing done /ɡɒt ˈnʌθɪŋ dʌn/

• work mode /wɜːrk moʊd/

• one by one /wʌn baɪ wʌn/

• priorities /praɪˈɔːrətiz/

• synced up /sɪŋkt ʌp/

• day-to-day /ˌdeɪ tə ˈdeɪ/

• prompt engineer /prɒmpt ˌendʒɪˈnɪr/

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