Back to work!

*sigh*

Okay, vacation's over. Now I'm back to face the task I was already dreading before I left for the holidays -- not because it's immensely difficult, but because I'm not sure how to even start. Which makes it difficult, admittedly. Especially when every question about what to do next needs a will save to avoid the 'do nothing' option, subdivided into 'fall asleep at desk', 'surf the web', 'stare at the lava lamp', 'pace back and forth', 'go get another cup of coffee', and of course 'update livejournal'.

That the task is actually very important and could well have a noticeable impact on the business unit (although probably not the company as a whole) doesn't help at all, because the deadline that actually matters for that is too far out to see. It's one of the deceptive ones where woolgathering now will lead to certain failure later, though.

I'm tempted to take another month of vacation to put it off for a little longer, but that never fixes anything.