My sabbatical week is still ongoing, with my beloved one and myself going for dinner tonight, celebrating 15 years of knowing each other's highs and lows, nine years of marriage, my birthday, and the fact that we have the cutest set of kids in the world. This noon, out-of-the-blue, we did some table grill cooking with the kids, which was a good moment to consider what life really is about.
This sabbatical thing has been lasting for a small week by now, and essentially boils down to me not doing anything during the evening which is work- or computer-related, and has been dropping me into some Homer-esque mode of watching television, eating chips and drinking wine, reading the latest Aspe novel (which is Flanders' most popular detective writer), and starting to browse Cryptonomicon (yep, I'm late). Nothing really exciting, but a big change from trying to 'do something' on my computer until well past 1 AM on almost every week and weekend night for the past few months (with no real tangible result however, as often is the case when one is basically ignoring his own sleep deprivation and the subsequent unproductivity).
The nice side-effect of this (non-)leave is my batteries feeling being recharged and new energy emerging. That was about time.
Funny, my wife and I also celebrated our 15 years one week ago. But we were quicker for getting married, as it was 13 years ago.
Take care.
Hmmmm a sabbatical week! I'm looking so much forward to mine ;-) Just one more week to go and then it's 7 nice days of relaxing and being with the family. Hope it'll be enough to recharge my batteries too :-))