Escape
The blue sky and golden tree outside my office window looked so inviting in the rare winter sunshine today, that the vertical blinds felt like prison bars.
I got the same, un-nameable feeling that I used to get when I was at primary school, and watched seagulls soaring around in the crisp blue sky over the playground. It was something like homesickness, and made me long to be somewhere else. This shouldn’t be taken as evidence that I’m chronically unhappy at work—-I’m fine. It’s just that it seems to have been a long, dark winter, and it’s the Friday after a very busy week, and I’ve had that, “For goodness sake, isn’t it the weekend yet?” feeling for a couple of days.

