Going home soon

Well, I have not written about my work for a long time, but I am working. It is crazy as usual. I have somehow recently became a kind of mental health and psychosocial focal person in my office and handling some heavy topics. We will be collecting data on "suicide" in some research this year, and I have been reading and thinking about suicide a lot lately.

I have tentatively booked my flight to Japan to go on home leave the first 2 weeks of August. With everything these days, I am quite exhausted and I really need a break. My short (actually less than 2 weeks) holiday seems already filling up with plans, and I am not sure how resting it will be. But, certainly it will be good to be home and be around my family and see friends. It is probably the worst time to be Kyoto given the hot and humid weather... I hope I will manage. I can't even remember the last time when I was home in summer (because I usually avoid it).

My next three weeks are almost completely booked up with another recruitment duties, my own project work and some humanitarian assistance related strategic meetings. Non-stop always!!!