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I am now on vacation through January 2nd; somehow, after having been worried I would have no time off left by the end of the year, I wound up with enough to do this and carry one day over into 2011 (which must be used by March 31).
Also, having been worried that I had Far Too Much to do this week, to the point that I was wondering if I'd need to go in tomorrow (which is a holiday), I was able to leave early. Around noon, Wendy came around to say that if people had finished what we needed to by 3:00, we could leave then. I had my doubts at that point, but the last bits of what I needed to get done came together faster than I had expected, after lunch. I even got to do one small task that is only tangentially related to any of my current projects, which could have waited, but which fit conveniently into five spare minutes.
So, I left work at 3, went to the gym and exercised some, then stopped off for a cup of tea (rather than waiting until I got home for more caffeine) and to pick up my bus ticket for next week. I'd bought it online a couple of weeks ago for a significant discount, but wanted to have it in hand ahead of time; I also paid an extra $5 for priority boarding.
It occurred to me, in the course of working around the latest configuration of taped-off areas and machinery and trying to find things at the gym today, that while next month may be crowded with people who make New Year's resolutions remember their gym memberships, the upside is that people are unlikely to sign up at this branch right now. (The gym has different levels of membership, and all-branches-all-times costs extra, so a lot of people stick to one branch.)
( gym details cut, as usual )
Also, having been worried that I had Far Too Much to do this week, to the point that I was wondering if I'd need to go in tomorrow (which is a holiday), I was able to leave early. Around noon, Wendy came around to say that if people had finished what we needed to by 3:00, we could leave then. I had my doubts at that point, but the last bits of what I needed to get done came together faster than I had expected, after lunch. I even got to do one small task that is only tangentially related to any of my current projects, which could have waited, but which fit conveniently into five spare minutes.
So, I left work at 3, went to the gym and exercised some, then stopped off for a cup of tea (rather than waiting until I got home for more caffeine) and to pick up my bus ticket for next week. I'd bought it online a couple of weeks ago for a significant discount, but wanted to have it in hand ahead of time; I also paid an extra $5 for priority boarding.
It occurred to me, in the course of working around the latest configuration of taped-off areas and machinery and trying to find things at the gym today, that while next month may be crowded with people who make New Year's resolutions remember their gym memberships, the upside is that people are unlikely to sign up at this branch right now. (The gym has different levels of membership, and all-branches-all-times costs extra, so a lot of people stick to one branch.)
( gym details cut, as usual )