Juggling Time

I got so sick of being back in my little office again that I’ve spent all afternoon trying to master ‘an overhand cascade’. It’s a juggling move. I found an online tutorial on YouTube and I’m determined to get it right before I go home. I’ve never had the foresight and planning to leave a set of juggling balls here in my desk, so I’m using an apple, a carton of apple juice and a novelty paperweight in the shape of a tortoise. Not ideal tools, but I’m doing my best.
I should, of course, be catching up with all the work I didn’t do last week because I was at home doing a course, but my thinking is that there’s no point rushing back into the same old routine, because that’s the scenario where mistakes are cultivated. Best to give yourself a ‘soft landing’ after a holiday or enforced absence and spend the first day back doing as little as possible until your mind and body get used to the return. Plus – I got loads done in advance, so it’s not as if I’m months behind in my paperwork. Plus – I had a colleague keeping an eye on things while I was gone, so he was dealing with issues as they arose, rather than leaving them in a pile for me to look at today, so there really isn’t all that much to get on with.
I am, to be honest, supposed to have all my Christmas and New Year rota requests sorted by the end of October (and therefore the end of this week) but I’m not sure there’s any point in doing that this year. We could set everything in stone, then have two members of staff self-isolating from mid-December and the whole thing will go in the bin. I have a feeling that will be quite a common practice come Xmas week – people who fancy a bit of time at home over the festive period will suddenly develop Covid symptoms and have an excuse to keep away from work. None of my staff are included in that projection, by the way, I have a really good team who look out for each other and no-one is that sneaky or dishonest, but I bet it’ll be happening elsewhere.
Anyway – back to the juggle-isation.

RC 19-10-20
1700 BST