Perth

So I've been in Perth for six days now...

I'm staying with friends who moved here from Melbourne recently. It's been great catching up with everyone.

But overall, I'm having a pretty lazy holiday here, so in the spare time I find myself browsing Stack Exchange and other programming blogs quite a bit. I don't think I can go a single day without at least reading about programming, if not actively discussing it on a forum. I suppose this is a good sign - it shows that I definitely have a passion for it - I just burned out with the grind of nitty gritty "work", corporate politics, etc.

It's been over a week since I went on sabbatical. Two things are very clear to me now:

1) I really really really needed this.

2) There is absolutely no danger that I'll get lazy and never be able to ramp myself up to work again. - This is something that some people warn against when taking career breaks and sabbaticals - but I just don't have that lazy "eternal leisure" streak in me. Even if money was not an issue and I could do whatever I wanted forever, I'd still want some kind of routine and structure. Some reason to get up at a decent hour and do something productive every day.