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On holiday (82/365)
Mar. 23rd, 2021 07:19 pmAs of 7:15 tonight, I am off work until the 6th, and not before bloody time. I was so exhausted today it really was a struggle to slog through all the emails that really needed replies, not helped by the morning of back-to-back meetings*, and the one bigger thing I really wanted to get done before I finished ended up being done in 45 minutes of speed typing and sent out in very scrappy format.
Anyway, my office is now disassembled, my sewing machine is back on the desk instead, and I have nearly two weeks** of not having to worry about work.
*at one point I was sitting listening to a colleague who I do esteem greatly, but who does have a tendency to go on, going on and wondering whether any of what they were saying actually made any sense, so I was quite glad when someone else called me and gave me an excuse to duck out of that meeting.
**someone in a meeting today said "X is taking two weeks' leave, I wouldn't want two weeks just sitting at home", to which I pointed out that I had a long list of things to sew and planned to occupy the rest of the time with walks and jumping into cold bodies of water, which is really not a bad way to spend time at all. Ideally my holidays would have more hills and/or the sea, and some meals out, but I can live with the "being at home" bit of lockdown, it's just the "not seeing my family and friends" and "work being much busier than normal when normal is already too much" bits that are the problem...
Anyway, my office is now disassembled, my sewing machine is back on the desk instead, and I have nearly two weeks** of not having to worry about work.
*at one point I was sitting listening to a colleague who I do esteem greatly, but who does have a tendency to go on, going on and wondering whether any of what they were saying actually made any sense, so I was quite glad when someone else called me and gave me an excuse to duck out of that meeting.
**someone in a meeting today said "X is taking two weeks' leave, I wouldn't want two weeks just sitting at home", to which I pointed out that I had a long list of things to sew and planned to occupy the rest of the time with walks and jumping into cold bodies of water, which is really not a bad way to spend time at all. Ideally my holidays would have more hills and/or the sea, and some meals out, but I can live with the "being at home" bit of lockdown, it's just the "not seeing my family and friends" and "work being much busier than normal when normal is already too much" bits that are the problem...
