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Date: 20 July 2007 09:59:48
To-day, I'm taking a proper day off. I read in Christianity that John Stott found it helpful to have what he called a 'Q' day once a month. It clearly isn't practical for me to take a day off a month just for myself, and I don't think that mine is the kind of job where it would be acceptable for me to spend a working day out of reach, so I'm thinking that once a quarter (ie 4 days a year) I should take a day's annual leave with no particular object in mind except to have some time out.
My team have been pretty good. Yesterday, I survived a team meeting. I'm beginning to think that what I need is some training, in areas like project management, as well as in technical matters. The university counselling service have emailed, offering me a start date (when I shall be on holiday, but I'm hoping that they're happy to postpone the first session until the following week). A step at a time, I guess ...
To-morrow, perhaps, we'll try to get on Brian Soutar's hovercraft, although I suspect that everyone in Edinburgh is currently thinking the same. Wife is keen to go somewhere - I've suggested the train to Stirling.