But, but...what will you *do*?

I started my two month vacation / leave / mini-sabbatical today.

The first reaction I've been getting is: "Oh good for you!", like work is somehow bad for me or something. The second most common reaction is, "But what will you do?"

...well, in short. Nothing. I think that's the idea, anyway.

But being me, there's no way that I can actually sit still and do nothing for 2 months. Tomorrow I start a 3.5 week journey to Southeast Asia. The first part of the trip feels like some sort of deja-vu-slash-bad-family-home-videos-replay; I'm going to Hong Kong, Macao, and Thailand with my parents, sans the parental units.. The second part of the trip takes me to Cambodia and Vietnam. To be honest, I feel utterly unprepared and don't really know what to expect. All I know is that I've got malaria pills and enough premethrin-coated clothing to stave off a herd of mosquitoes, and I'm hoping that my Amex card will get me through any other troubles. LOL

In any case, my day one observation is that it's really hard to do *nothing*. Everywhere I turn, there are tasks or projects or little things (or big things) that I can do here and there. Things that I never got around to because, well, I was working. Funny how that I have to take a vacation in order to have time for myself. Does that make me a workaholic? And if so, how will I cope the next two months? Will I go into some nasty withdrawal? We'll see how it goes.

Oh, and blogging. That's one of those "tasks" that I should now have time for now that I'm not working. Not working...I like the sound of that.