Back to Work!

It's just me and the mega-boss (lord of all he surveys) in today. According to an email somewhere in my long list of unreads, the rest will be back on Monday. So it's peace and quiet - for half a day only (we leave work at 1 on a Friday).

In a way it's good to be back at the desk. I missed my computer and internet access. Then again, there's this tiny spider coming down from the high ceiling in front of my screen as we speak, probably checking in on a web other than his own as I surf? He's just hanging around mid-air. Cool!

What I haven't enjoyed is the first of the new year's clueless students turning up in my office - application form unfilled, parent's details not around, documents missing... She and her mom spent over an hour sitting here completing stuff they should have done before turning up.

(Spider's decided to investigate the desk and is heading for the keyboa....... rd. Sorry, had to avoid him... ;) ).

I have had a good holiday though and could do with a bit more. I never got the house-painting party going - the sis-in-law has yet to contact me, and now it's too late for a full day in the mid-week. However, I did get a lot of doors re-coloured inside and just this week ripped up most of the front garden to replant and add a few stunning roses. Looks good, but is missing patches of lawn until it grows in.

It's a bit of an uncertain start to my working year. I have a new boss this year who is destined to kick me out of my big lovely office, but the other office is not yet ready and I need to be available on phone and internet well into February without still having to organize that. They haven't started renovations to enlarge my new space, which is desperately needed.

I don't know how much of the year I'll be here for. I just found a potential job in Australia on the net that could mean I get over there mid-February! I'm more than qualified and they were pretty keen on me for another job a while back. Now that I have a visa application in, I have a pretty good chance of getting it! Scary - it's a subservient position again and I've kinda liked being my own boss..... We'll see though, I DO need employment once over the big blue sea.

I guess I'm back at work with mixed feelings. It's nice to be back in a routine/rut again, but after 8 years here I really want to move on. The old tug-of-war between being too comfortable to move, and stepping out so life gets better. Right now, I think I'm all for stepping - but it gets my insides a bit wobbly thinking of it.

So, back to work. The pile on my desk is at least something that's sure in this whole year.