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Vacation vacation vacation. That's all I can think about: vacation, beach, sun, sea, relax, sleeping. Water, fishes, swimming, more sun, great food, sleep. Am I making sense? and if I'm not, who cares??

I have found myself irremediably European when it comes to time off. For those who don't know, I took the entire month of December off, and then some. So, it's only been 3 months and a half since the last time off, no-project-on-sight, but it feels like a century. I'm tired, I'm cranky, I NEED a vacation. It's seriously physical. I have a hard time concentrating, I'm tired "inside", I'm craving these next TEN (yiiippiiieeeeeeee!!!) days of nothing but relax. I'm kind of afraid that moving forward it's not a good sign that I have such a physical need to stop every 3 months, but... oh well! I just don't understand this American policy with time off, like ten working days are enough, in a year, to rest and recollect. I BLESS my company, and its fabulous policy of giving overtime in additional vacation. It's the best company in the world!!! I was listening to the radio the other day to this host who was making a fuss about the fact the State of California is giving out additional time off to employees. He was saying, that's not money, that's just time nobody knows what to do with!! It makes me flip. Like quality of life, spending time with your family (even if you stay home!) are just useless extras nobody should care about. Whatever.

Anyway. We're leaving Wednesday. Ten days. FREE. It doesn't get any better than this... :)