Categories: stress, holidays, work, study, life
Date: 03 June 2010 10:22:15
Well, just over a month has passed. And I'm back. With a different focus and, as my blog's tagline states, an occasional blog.
An e-mail exchange I had with a fellow Wiblogger made it clear that I had got a bit obsessive with my blogging, in the sense I had to do it perfectly [my perfectionism forcing through], daily [at the least!], etc.; stopping relieved some stress. So I make no excuse for the fact this will be occasional.
If you aren't stalking me through Facebook, the main change from a month ago is that on May 13 I resigned from my job. I will be there until September 17, (1) because the company has been very good to me and I wanted to give enough notice and time to train my replacement/others; and (2) it fits in well with my trip to the Oberammergau Passion Play in late September.
Since resigining, almost every colleague has come up to me and said how relaxed and how 'back to the old Ian' I am. While I do have no idea what I will do, hence the new blog name, I know from that it was the right decision. I truly feel so much more relaxed and less stressed, so I am happy I made the decision; especially as I had leave on the next day [Friday] so I could spend a wonderfully relaxing and enjoyable long weekend down in Albury, a city just under 600km SW of Sydney.
I signed up for a 5-week online course on Feature Writing through the Sydney Writers' Centre. It is week 2 and I am enjoying it. It is nice to indulge in something I have always wondered about. I am not thinking I can become a writer; more doing it as something for me. Perhaps I'll learn some tips on brevity to make these blogs shorter!
Similar to rain I am considering some form of volunteering, perhaps overseas, from the time of the Passion Play to the end of the year [assuming the finances make it doable]. Or I may travel. Not sure. And it doesn't bother me. I know it will be hard, I am someone who needs to be doing something, so I am under no illusions that there will be some bumps: and add to that the fact I am leaving a job I've been at for almost 7 years [2 part-time while I considered a career change to English teaching] and a job with great colleagues...
But I am excited. So excited. And I give thanks to God for the adventure I can undertake.