Gosh, this is a welcome little break we have coming up. I have probably never worked so hard in my life as I have over the last three months.
Until my birthday last weekend, when I absented myself from our campus (not without considerable pangs of guilt!) for a whopping 43 hours, I hadn't taken a complete day off in the previous 10 or 11 weeks. Some colleagues have ribbed me about suggesting that I'd been working around 100 hours a week during that time; but in fact, I think that's a fairly conservative estimate: there have certainly been a couple of weeks where I've put in more like 110-120 hours.
What's more, I've been quite seriously ill during much of that time, with a succession of nasty colds and tummy bugs, and horrendous allergies to - it seems - just about everything in our local environment. I've rarely been getting more than 4 or 5 hours sleep a night.
Hence, now that we have a fortnight's respite, I am mighty tempted to try to spend most of it catching up on sleep. Except that I still have work to do....
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