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Three week sabbatical begins... yesterday
May. 18th, 2019 09:39 amI finished my last week of work like someone sprinting off a cliff -- totally unsustainable effort level, and I even bailed on acro class, but my must-do work list was getting shorter every day, and I got it to zero and closed all my tabs/windows around 6PM yesterday. Then the bug and I watched a few more episodes of Love, Death and Robots (which I like because each one is standalone and very short), and went to sleep with no alarm set.
I've thought of a couple work-things I didn't do, but both are things people can either figure out (yes I set someone else to approve expense reports while I'm out) or someone else will definitely say on my behalf anyway. And I dreamed about work last night. This is expected -- it'll take the brain a while to figure out that we're changing gears now. I had a few good discussions with other manager-types on the way out, and some confirmed that longer breaks get more essential when the job changes in certain ways. What those ways ARE is of interest to me, but also doesn't matter in some ways. What matters is that I am in fact responding to the changing needs of my system. My director didn't give me details, but told me she's also experimenting and trying to figure out what her body really needs in terms of rest... that was encouraging. And it was nice that, even though my outage now coincides kind of terribly with a new effort kicking off, nobody gave me any pressure to change my schedule or even suggested it.
Before I forget: my grandfather died this week, in his sleep with no pain, at age 97. He had a good life, as far as I can tell... professional success, a long marriage, a gorgeous home with an arcade and a bar in the basement, time to tinker with antique cars. I had known he would pass soon, but not how peacefully it would go. Good job, Graddaddy, I really think what you did this week counts as winning.
I've thought of a couple work-things I didn't do, but both are things people can either figure out (yes I set someone else to approve expense reports while I'm out) or someone else will definitely say on my behalf anyway. And I dreamed about work last night. This is expected -- it'll take the brain a while to figure out that we're changing gears now. I had a few good discussions with other manager-types on the way out, and some confirmed that longer breaks get more essential when the job changes in certain ways. What those ways ARE is of interest to me, but also doesn't matter in some ways. What matters is that I am in fact responding to the changing needs of my system. My director didn't give me details, but told me she's also experimenting and trying to figure out what her body really needs in terms of rest... that was encouraging. And it was nice that, even though my outage now coincides kind of terribly with a new effort kicking off, nobody gave me any pressure to change my schedule or even suggested it.
Before I forget: my grandfather died this week, in his sleep with no pain, at age 97. He had a good life, as far as I can tell... professional success, a long marriage, a gorgeous home with an arcade and a bar in the basement, time to tinker with antique cars. I had known he would pass soon, but not how peacefully it would go. Good job, Graddaddy, I really think what you did this week counts as winning.
