Vacation!

[ksmith]

I'm on vacation!

As you remember, Bob, Kris decided to chew up all her vacation earlier in the year by taking a leave of absence from the day job. Those two months--half vacation, half unpaid personal leave--went by too quickly, and the purpose of the exercise, namely, to finish ENDGAME...let's just say that didn't work out. And I returned to work in March with the realization that I had pretty much shot my wad for the year. I could bargain days here and there as long as I made up the time, but those "I think I'll take off Friday and make it a three-day writing weekend" were but a memory.

Now we teeter on the brink of a new year, and I have vacation time again. We will hold those days close like a miser their gold, oh yes we will. I am taking off all next week. After that, I may use an odd Friday or Monday until the book is out the door, but after that, I will take care. There's Wiscon in May. Pretty much open after that. I'd like to have a week or two around the holidays, even though I will admit that you get a lot done when there's no one else in the office.

I have vacation again. Wow.

Comments

[equesgal.livejournal.com]

Funny how when you set aside time to write the words won't come. But the morning your head is bursting with ideas you have to leave the house for work or something else you don't want to do. Bah.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

It's aggravating. I go through all that trouble to arrange for the time off, and my writing brain spends it going Wheee! and blowing bubbles in its milk.