It’s not cunning. Well, only a little bit perhaps.

My life will change fairly substantially over the rest of this year, mostly in good ways but with tinges of necessary sadness.

Me, personally, I want to go and live by the sea. I hope to be able to do so, at least part of my time, by the end of the year.

I’m also going to work less. My plan at the start of this year was to have a day a week at home, hopefully writing but probably teaching online. That didn’t work because I frightened myself into not having enough work so I took on too much. Next Tuesday is the second half-day I’ve had off since the end of August. So, right, do better next year. Which will be fairly easy as I don’t particularly like one of the schools where I teach (“Here’s your broom cupboard for today’s class, sorry there’s no power point. Yes, we do know you’re teaching a computing class”) so I’m going to drop them and not work on Fridays.

I’ve been working towards this by eating my lunch on the beach whenever I can, since a number of the schools where I teach are a 10 minute drive away, so I have that going for me.

And yeah. Live besides the sea for around half of every month by the end of the year.

Yippee.