Sign # 698 That You Might Be Poor
Nov. 30th, 2004 08:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
d_aulnoyYou warm your hands over the kettle making tea in the mornings.
I want a vacation. I know, I know ... we just had one. But I want a *real* vacation - the kind where there are no obligations hanging over your head (I wooooouuuuullllldddd be relaxing, but there are reviews to be written, papers to be graded, and, oh, lookie there, orals are in two weeks! etc.) I want the kind of a vacation where there's a decent amount of time to sleep late and do nothing but relax. Preferably in a warm place, possibly one where there's swimming available. Yeah, don't we all?
But I haven't done that since I was nine ... well, okay, eighteen, if you cancel the "swimming" part of it (Seattle).
I think that now, for the first time, I see why people take time off before starting grad. school: I'm exhausted. I haven't had a vacation in seven years - no summers off, no nada - and I'm TIRED.
My timing sucks ...
I want a vacation. I know, I know ... we just had one. But I want a *real* vacation - the kind where there are no obligations hanging over your head (I wooooouuuuullllldddd be relaxing, but there are reviews to be written, papers to be graded, and, oh, lookie there, orals are in two weeks! etc.) I want the kind of a vacation where there's a decent amount of time to sleep late and do nothing but relax. Preferably in a warm place, possibly one where there's swimming available. Yeah, don't we all?
But I haven't done that since I was nine ... well, okay, eighteen, if you cancel the "swimming" part of it (Seattle).
I think that now, for the first time, I see why people take time off before starting grad. school: I'm exhausted. I haven't had a vacation in seven years - no summers off, no nada - and I'm TIRED.
My timing sucks ...
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Date: 2004-11-30 09:57 am (UTC)I took a year off after grad school, but vacation wasn't much of a part of it - well, once, close - I went to savannah for a few days to visit my best friend, but that was brief, and a long time ago.
I've wanted to take a vacation with a boyfriend for ages. I didn't have any serious relationships before grad school - now I'm on my third (although the second was, well, yeah), and still no real, obligation-free vacation. I might have been able to come close summer before last, but that was when boyfriend #1 dumped me. I have my hopes for this summer, but in this cold, I could use it now. Unfortunately, I would feel guilty visiting my 90 year old grandmother with all the crap I have to do.