The New Year...

This wasn't the first post I envisioned...

I had wanted to start off with the high points of the year gone by and go on to some aspirations for the year ahead. Instead, I'm here, fighting off an infection that landed me in hospital, and writing about the new year in February.

A classic example of "Man proposes; God disposes."

The year has certainly not turned out the way I expected. I was looking forward to a year of rest (physically). As it turned out, my 2011 "year of rest" was a pipe dream, and I didn't really get a chance to catch up with myself, which I hoped to be able to do this year.

However, a job opportunity came about which was rather too good to refuse. I'm now writing new curriculum for a primary school, that will will be deployed via smartphones. All very cutting edge, and quite up my alley :)

The work is interesting, to say the least. It gives me a unique insight into the rationale behind the development of curriculum, which is particularly helpful to me as a teacher. Having to consider the material from a student's perspective really makes me think of how students learn. It is very enlightening :)

Apart from that, I'm rather cutting back on everything else. Of course, at this particular moment, I'm feeling under the weather, primarily due to the onslaught of the antibiotics on the bacteria in my body (and making me feel terrible in the process, which is irony in the extreme). Apart from sleeping, I don't feel like doing much at all... definitely not any thinking of any sort.

I feel like I kind of owe it to myself, you know, to give myself a break. And not having done that, my body went on "vacation" arbitrarily :) Perhaps, I really should take my own advice, and take better care of myself. I know I've mentioned this often, but this recent bout has rather driven home the point.

Maybe I've gotten so used to putting other people's needs ahead of my own, I've gotten used to not acknowledging them.

Oh well... time to sleep.

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