I find your lack of spoons disturbing

[alias_sqbr]

So...I am now on six months Leave Without Pay from my job. Which will quite possibly be extended to a year, but the way the public service hiring works it actually doesn't do any harm to give me the option of coming back earlier.

When I first considered leaving again it was really depressing, but the more I thought about it and discussed it with distantcam the more it became obvious it was the right thing to do. And right now I feel like a big weight has been lifted off my shoulders, worrying about trying to work and the physical strain of when I was able to go in was this huge stress (yes, even at only 8 hours a week. I am not well :( )

Anyway! I've been rather avoiding doing anything thinky like answering emails etc for a few days to get myself in top condition to tidy everything up today(*) but now that's done I may crash and rest for a bit then will hopefully be up to being chattier and maybe even going out. (which is good, since there's a wedding next week I definitely want to be at)

Oh! And I sat there being drizzled on through the holes in the train station roof thinking happy thoughts about going home, making a nice cup of hot chocolate (no more worrying about caffeine withdrawal at work!), checking my email and watching Foxtel..and the power was out for THREE HOURS. I had to read a book!

(*)If there's one thing I got really good at during the experimental portions of my BSc it was writing a nice clear summary of how I collected my data, what the results are, and why they're impossible (like 120% of a certain group of people having a particular property) Eventually I gave up trying to figure out what went wrong, highlighted the impossible results in a nice arresting pink and wished the workmate taking on the data the best of luck :)

Comments

[nephron.livejournal.com]

I didn't realise things were so difficult for you at the moment. I hope you recover as much as possible as soon as possible, and you manage to resist the lure of chocolate cake.

Thank you even more for reading my post (which I know is long and somewhat disjointed).

[alias_sqbr]

Thanks!

Reading long posts is fine, it gives me something to do. It's coming up with reasoned coherent responses to them that's tricky :)

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

Good luck with it all. In my opinion, not working much and not maximising one's productivity are valid options regardless of whether one has other problems to face.

[alias_sqbr]

Thankyou. And I totally agree. Though it would be nice to have the extra money!