the still point of the turning world

Miss H was on annual leave last week, and while expressing my jealousy about this fact, I suddenly realised that the end of my leave year was actually not very far away and I had quite a lot left to book. Which, when I checked, turned out to be 18 days(!) despite all the frivolous days I've already taken off after concerts etc. And once I allowed for no leave during Welcome, no leave during graduations, and realistically no leave during the testing for the big system changeover this summer, my calendar did not actually have all that many spaces in it!

So I booked off a week in August (coordinating with Miss H, so hopefully we can manage a small adventure or two), most of a week right before Welcome, and the week after graduations. Except then my boss came and apologetically asked if I wouldn't mind moving that one if I didn't have any specific plans, because that's when the big system changeover is due to happen and she's concerned enough about everything falling over as a result (sadly only too plausible an outcome) that she's given me the second week of graduations off instead! Since I was basically just picking random weeks, I said yes of course. And I still have three days left, which I can carry over if I don't use them in time. Annual leave! I'm so excited! Except for the point yesterday when I realised that having booked time off doesn't mean that I don't have to go to work all the rest of this week, and the whole of June, before I get any of it...