If I'm on leave, why do I have deadlines?  These deadlines represent everything I had agreed to do outside of my usual Ateneo work.  It also represents work I had picked up from my dealings in the UK. 

April and May are a break from normal work life.  They were a fieldtrip into "anything you like" land.  Just thinking about going back is actually a little depressing.  It's like brooding over death. 

But again, don't get me wrong.  I do love the Ateneo.  I guess the thing here is that they are paying me to do what I like (for a change). There was a time when I took third summer leave for granted.  Even when I was on third summer leave, I'd work anyway.  This is the first time I've actually taken the time off, because there were things I wanted to do.  It's pretty addicting. 

OK, enough blogging.  Back to the deadlines.