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Tuesday, September 20, 2005

End of the holidays

Our two week adventure in New Zealand ended with a rather sleepy train ride back from Sydney on Sunday, and now here I am back at work. Don’t ask me what I did yesterday, because I can’t remember through the fog of self pity and desperate fantasising about being somewhere else. To be honest, it’s not much better today, but I am steadily drawing closer to the point of being a functional worker again.

(Clearly that’s not the case right at the moment, as I am writing a blog entry instead of working, but be assured that by small iterations I am creeping stealthily towards actually doing something useful).

I’m not going to get all the details of the trip down now – I don’t quite have so little regard for the multitude of tasks I’m supposed to be dealing with – but a quick synopsis: it was great. There was skiing/snowboarding, there were plentiful quantities of fabulous kiwi wine, there was so much scenery you wonder if your brain is starved of oxygen and you’re hallucinating, and there were good friends in fine spirits. What more could I have asked (apart from another two weeks off work?).

And now the return to reality

There seem to be a million things to do. Normally I would ascribe that to the usual post-holiday malaise, but actually I think there might actually be rather a large amount to get done as soon as possible. I’m kind of nervous about lifting up the rock on a few of the more obvious jobs, because I strongly suspect that all sorts of nasties are going to come scuttling out. I just don’t know that I’m in the head space to deal with nasties right at the moment. Conventional wisdom says that it takes a few days to get back into work routines after a good break. I’m just hoping that until then I can keep treading water without stirring up more muck than I have to.

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3 Comments:

Sounds like a fun trip.
:~)
Good luck settling back in at work.

*shimmy*

By polly, at 6:32 PM

What! No injuries! Couldn't have been *that* good a ski trip.

By Marco, at 9:05 PM

Well, there just weren't any *fatal* injuries. But we did drive up and down a steep, muddy, corrugated road on the side of a mountain several times, with a several-kilometer drop just to one side for most of the way.

That was pretty thrilling.

By Dave, at 11:41 PM


	Tuesday, September 20, 2005 End of the holidays Our two week adventure in New Zealand ended with a rather sleepy train ride back from Sydney on Sunday, and now here I am back at work. Don’t ask me what I did yesterday, because I can’t remember through the fog of self pity and desperate fantasising about being somewhere else. To be honest, it’s not much better today, but I am steadily drawing closer to the point of being a functional worker again. (Clearly that’s not the case right at the moment, as I am writing a blog entry instead of working, but be assured that by small iterations I am creeping stealthily towards actually doing something useful). I’m not going to get all the details of the trip down now – I don’t quite have so little regard for the multitude of tasks I’m supposed to be dealing with – but a quick synopsis: it was great. There was skiing/snowboarding, there were plentiful quantities of fabulous kiwi wine, there was so much scenery you wonder if your brain is starved of oxygen and you’re hallucinating, and there were good friends in fine spirits. What more could I have asked (apart from another two weeks off work?). And now the return to reality There seem to be a million things to do. Normally I would ascribe that to the usual post-holiday malaise, but actually I think there might actually be rather a large amount to get done as soon as possible. I’m kind of nervous about lifting up the rock on a few of the more obvious jobs, because I strongly suspect that all sorts of nasties are going to come scuttling out. I just don’t know that I’m in the head space to deal with nasties right at the moment. Conventional wisdom says that it takes a few days to get back into work routines after a good break. I’m just hoping that until then I can keep treading water without stirring up more muck than I have to. 3 smartarse remarks Post a Comment 3 Comments: Sounds like a fun trip. :~) Good luck settling back in at work. shimmy By polly, at 6:32 PM What! No injuries! Couldn't have been that good a ski trip. By Marco, at 9:05 PM Well, there just weren't any fatal injuries. But we did drive up and down a steep, muddy, corrugated road on the side of a mountain several times, with a several-kilometer drop just to one side for most of the way. That was pretty thrilling. By Dave, at 11:41 PM