My first ever weeknotes post following a momentous week - finishing up my work as a Senior Lecturer…
I took this image of an iron steer decorating a gate on the way back from a long-planned beach walk. When I say long-planned I’m not kidding. It was last year when I was up in Exmouth that I realised how helpful walking on soft sand might be for building up my strength and confidence walking with no ACL in my left knee. This year’s trip to Exmouth reminded me of that. I’ve been going to the gym and doing lots of other things, but never made time for walks on sand in late 2023 or 2024 up to now. Today I actually went for my first beach walk close to home. Will I continue? Well, that’s the plan!
It was not an easy week, but not as difficult as I feared it might be. I’ve been planning my exit from permanent employment for about nine months. In the last three weeks I set aside time to tidy up my digital records, prepare information and resources for colleagues, and take any personal accounts etc off my work computer. For once, I think I did a great job of sorting things out well before the deadline of my last day.
That meant I had time to meetup with people for a chat in my last week. It also meant that my leaving event – mini golf with just a few close colleagues – was fun. There were no tasks hanging over my head, and everyone there had a good time (I think).
With my last working day on Thursday, followed by my regular Friday golf competition, it was Saturday when I thought things might begin to feel strange. I wasn’t wrong (although Saturdays have been weird for me for a long time). I was too tired to run (and it was too hot by the time I was ready to go anywhere), but accomplishing the beach walk definitely made me feel a lot better.
Stuff I did:
- Physio
- Finished up at work (yay)!
- Golf x2
- Beach walk (!)
Plans:
- Setup custom domain for this site
- Tidy up what I have here so I can release this to the world
- Physio
- Golf x2
- Beach walk somewhere different
- At least one run?
- One additional weights session (oh, I’m so bad at doing this on the reg)
- Get on the water? (wind, weather and energy allowing)
I’m not sure how next week will actually pan out. I’m pretty tired. I know I have too many plans. I’m a bit hyper. The key will be to do something, not just think about everything!
I really do need to write an overdue abstract for a piece of writing, but that’s work (sort of work), so I’m having a few issues scheduling time in my first week of freedom (sorry editors).
