Dead man walking...

 Who loves 'The green mile'?  I do, great cast, production and script.    Why are we talking about this?  Well I'm in that weird position where I have given notice that I'm leaving my job, but am still required to be working for the next 5 or so weeks.   It reminded me of the 'dead man walking' phrase.  I described it to a colleague this week as like breaking up with your girlfriend and then having to live with her for the next 5 weeks. 

I am fully expecting to be second guessing my decision many times from now on, and this is happening a bit, but as I think through it it still feels like the right thing to do.   I'm expecting it will take months before I can get past the work based thinking that dominates a lot of my waking hours.   things like " am I doing everything needed in a timely manner", " am I being considerate of my staff members"," am I doing to much / no enough",  "did I do a good job on that thing" etc. 

I saw a cartoon a couple of years ago that a friend had pinned on the wall,  went something along the lines of we were so busy making other people rich, we didn't have time to look after ourselves.  Another one I've bookmarked is from the Onion,  which has a nice perspective on self importance.  Let me know what you think?  

Blogs are more interesting with a picture, so here's picture from Kakadu in Australia's Northern Territory,  from a recent motor-homing trip we took.  We now have a caravan so hopefully more of these experiences are in our future. 



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