Gracie’s Life Experiment

Today was my last day at work.  I got in the car and left for work feeling a bit of trepidation that it would be the last time I would have to do that.  Got to work and said hi to everyone as usual.  Found a box of chocolates on my desk from one of my final year students (aw, it’s nice to be appreciated).

Felt a bit sad.  Spent the whole morning packing up my stuff (3 filing cabinets and a desk full of stuff).  It’s a bit depressing that 6 years of my work condenses down into a 42 litre plastic box and 2 plastic bags.  It felt quite liberating though to clear things out/tidy up the cabinets and I managed to recycle 2 whole bins full of stuff.  Went out for pub lunch with some of the peeps from work which was nice and chilled.  Spent the afternoon backing up and copying files onto my external hard drive and finishing off a few bits of work.  It then took me over 1/2 hr to write my goodbye email to everyone (which was especially sad). 

Had my leaving do at Moomba, which seemed apt seeing as we’re off to Oz later this year.  It was nice to have so many colleagues out and made me realise that most of these people are also my friends that I see almost every day and a lot of them I socialise with too.  I didn’t seem so bad saying goodbye as I will still be in Loughborough until December and will prob be popping into the office now and again to say hello and bring the baby in once she’s born.

I got a loads of presents wrapped up in the shape of a boomerang which was so cool!  It was like Christmas again!  Mostly a lovely set of topaz and silver jewellery and address book and pen to keep in touch with everyone.

Summary of the day:  Felt sad, Went to work, Went to pub, More work, Had a quick nap at home, Went out for leaving dinner.