Very cool, if true

I made it - I got what passes for a tenured position in the UK, although tenure had been abolished in Britain some years before that.

But after 20 years, it is not for me, not any more. I am much, much happier having left. I've been on holiday since before Christmas, and in that time have done no real work and have only responded, very briefly, to a tiny handful of emails that came in needing a prompt reply. (And it is probably not a coincidence that all of these correspondents were academics, including one who suggested we have an online meeting on the Saturday before Christmas because they had space in their diary then.) I know there's a lot of work to do when I go back on Monday, but it is not filling me with the overwhelming dread it previously did. My chronic sleep-maintenance insomnia has pretty much vanished. I have not spent the whole of the autumn struggling to shake off a series of minor ailments.