The other F word

[nineveh_uk]

I am home from my skiing holiday, and lo! it was good. The aforementioned course was brilliant. While I would not proclaim myself a champion skater, I was respectable and it was a lot of fun. I'll definitely be doing more of it in future. Also bonus language practice thanks to the tiny group of two German speakers and two English speakers* each of whom knew the other language a bit, but not sufficiently to make either one dominate conversation*. The Alps were spiky and impressive even when the föhn was blasting a hair-dryer at the snow**, and a glass of wine with dinner less than a third of the price of Norway. It was all very easy and restful and I didn't have a cold during it (or, so far, after) for the first time in years.*** I expect next year to revert to where my heart lies, in the high white wilderness of the Norwegian fells, or at least Finland, but for this year the logistically easy and more populous version with shops was definitely what I needed. I managed just enough fitness to make the most of it, though at times it felt very noticeable to me that I had a veneer of energy laid over a pit of absence. But much as ice starts on the top of the water rather than the bottom, the veneer can in time be built into the real thing.

Back to work tomorrow! I feel simultaneously refreshed and reinvigorated for it and terrified of my inbox.

* The coach was Swedish and explained everything twice.

** Except the day it rained. I did my course in the morning, a diligent 3km of practice afterwards, and then went to the 'sauna world' to get rather more pleasantly drenched and hang around in a heated pool outdoors in the rain.

*** I have now not had a cold for about 5-6 weeks. This is amazing, maybe I've finally run out of new ones.

Comments

[white_hart]

I'm glad you had a good time, and hope the inbox isn't too dreadful. (It's possible that we've all been too busy battling the Q2 forecast to have time to email you - I don't think I have!).

I appear to have had colds more or less continuously since the weekend before Christmas and am increasingly pissed off about it.

[nineveh_uk]

The inbox is surprisingly survivable and crucially nothing really drastic that I needed to have been here for seems to have happened. So it is just ploughing through.

Sorry about the continual colds. There seem a huge number about this season. I've ended up with an Occ Health referral, not because we think they can do anything useful, but so we can say my line manager and I have done what we should. Probably they will tell me to take vitamins.

[white_hart]

I have dug a rather ancient bottle of vitamins out of the bathroom cupboard and started taking them, not that I really think it will help but it's worth a try. My real concern is that I have booked time off four and a half weeks from now and would quite like to go on a walking holiday, but am currently worried that if I'm still feeling off colour by then it'll just be miserable.

[antisoppist]

Yay no cold, not even from all the travelling and encounters with potentially germ-infested people. Long may it continue. I hope work is not too much of a shock to the system.

[nineveh_uk]

It is being surprisingly humane so far, i.e. I have a large inbox, but no news of anything having gone horribly wrong that my boss had to sort out. And it is nice to come back from a holiday feeling refreshed from it rather than shattered (I was shattered yesterday, but that was the travel).

[coalboy.livejournal.com]

yay for no cold, yay for the good time.