Virtually Paul

Unexpected Holiday

March 17, 2007 on 8:24 pm | In The Life of Paul |

The blogosphere, at least in my feed reader, has been a bit dry for a while… so this is my contribution towards getting things humming along again.

I got a rare and unexpected chance to have a holiday over the last two weeks. I took my camera with me and got a stack of good photos. I’m a bit too lazy to play with online galleries though. Maybe one day.

I start my new job on Tuesday next week and I can say confidently, after having two full weeks off, I’m actually really looking forward to having something structured to do again!

My holiday took me down to the Mornington Penninsula to have a go at surfing with my housemate and some of his friends and family. On the tail end of that I spent a few days checking out some national parks in the same area, spending a night camping on my own in a little town called Flinders on Westernport Bay.

It was good to get away with a group for a bit to do something different, then equally enjoyable to have a bit of time to myself down on the coast. I spent a fair few hours writing in a journal. It was good to get some particular thoughts out of my head and on to paper - and not just the usual logic puzzles or musings that I blog about here - stuff about me. Deeply so. I feel refreshed as a result. The world somehow feels a bit smaller. More manageable maybe?

The adventure concluded with a day and a half stopover at my grandparents’ place in Geelong, via the car ferry, where I was incredibly well fed with consecutive roast dinners, given tours of their church, and taken to the lawn bowling club for an hour of private tuition with my grandfather, bowls coach extraordinaire. I still can’t do it, despite his best efforts (which reminded me somewhat of my dad trying to teach me to drive).

I think I’ve used the time well. I’ve come to a few conclusions about things that are affecting my life, which I’ll post about soon in the hope of starting some discussion in general terms on the issues at play.  Stay tuned.