Top 10 signs you need a vacation:
10. You spend ten minutes hunting for your passport, and when you find it, you note with alarm that it expires pretty soon.
9. You catch yourself answering the phone with an annoyed “what?” instead of a hello.
8. You’ve permanently replaced sleep with coffee, and you’re thinking of installing an IV caffeine drip to save yourself the trouble of refills.
7. You need to check Google to find the weather report.
6. You’ve been running on sheer adrenaline for so long that you’re afraid to stop for a moment for fear you’ll crash.
5. Sundays are exiting; they mean you can work from home. In your pyjamas. (Viva la VPN!)
4. You catch yourself thinking about how to ‘dimensionalise’ your travel itinerary.
3. You’re nostalgic for the days of carpal tunnel syndrome, because they meant actually being able to feel pain in your wrist.
2. Your office meetings calendar is synced to your Outlook calendar, which is synced to your Google calendar, which is synced to your phone. And if any part of that chain breaks, you have no idea what to do next.
1. You realise in horror that you’ve actually added your vacation to your “to-do” list as an item to be crossed off.
Well, folks, I’m off tomorrow. As usual, the packing has been left until the very last minute, so I need to log off and go do that now, or else I may never get out of here.
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Au revoir!
(By the way, the cover photo for this blog is by the wonderful Kahunna. I hope he doesn’t mind me borrowing it temporarily until I have some photos of my own to replace it.)