"A Change Is As Good As Rest"

I quit my job just over a month ago; my last day was November 14th. My new employers initially wanted me to start on November 28th; however, I knew I was going to be out of town for a week and with Thanksgiving the week after, I wanted to have just 1 additional week before starting. So I suggested a start date of December 5th. Well, it turns out that December is a bad month at my new company to have new employees start due to workload and many folks being gone the latter half of the month with the holidays. So they suggested I start in January. So what I anticipated being a 3 week break before my new job has turned into a 7, possibly 8 week break. I was a little startled at first, but now that I've come around, holy shit ya'll, I have 8 mother truckin' weeks off bitches!!

I've never had this much time off...pretty much ever. There was a long span of time (about 9 months) right after I graduated from undergrad where I couldn't find a job and was unemployed. So I guess that's a longer period of time, but that was accompanied with so much defeat, anger, frustration, anxiety, and depression, that it's not like it really counted as "time off". Whereas this is legit, I-know-that-I'm-moving-on-to-something, ain't-got-shit-to-do, time off.

So have I spent this time hunkered down, ravaging through every book on my bookshelf that is on my to read list? Well, maybe only a little bit. But hey, I got a new bookshelf to put all of books on, so that's kind of sort of a little victory?

But seriously, I have been making good progress through Cat's Eye, and I am sure going to have a lot to say about this book. And even though it was written in the 1980s, there is such a relevance to many issues facing children today, I can't wait to wrap my thoughts around it all (and of course to see how the book finally pans out).

But I think once a get a few other things in order, then I'm really going to be able to enjoy more reading, and hopefully some productive writing as well. I'm sure that the next 4/5 weeks are going to fly by and this magical time of leisure will be nothing but a memory of fortunate circumstances giving me the gift of relaxation and free time. But believe me, I intend to make the absolute most of it!!