Long weekend!

[vilakins]

You'd think a four-day work week would be a doddle, but not when you have to fit five days' work into it and still have no e-mail at the office. I am so glad I have four days off now. Tuesday is a holiday, being our national day of non-celebration, but at least it's on a weekday again this year, and I managed to get Monday off, to my surprise! Yay! The downside of this of course is having to pay for it when I try to fit five days' work into three days next week, but I'll worry about that on Wednesday.

In the meantime, between lazing about, eating out, going places, yada yada, I may even get some more written on my brains_in_a_jar story which is almost up to 2000 words.

Comments

[kerravonsen]

Have fun!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I intend to!

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

try to enjoy them without thinking of next week x

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I will! I enjoyed last weekend though I knew an e-mail and internet-less office was waiting for me.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

As my mum used to say, "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." (We had a lot of Family Sayings, and most of 'em made less sense that was at all necessary)

Enjoy your long weekend, and let next week worry about itself... like I always, um, don't :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'm usually pretty good at leaving work at work. :-)

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

This is one of the main secrets to happiness, IMHO. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I have to write notes to myself so I remember what I was doing when I come back in. Is that dissociation? Compartmentalisation?

When I went to Germany (transferred there because I can speak German) they sent a Scottish guy with me to help get the IT under control because they'd lost their staff and got into a right mess. We were working 12-15 hours a day, but I'd go back to the hotel and read before bed and forget all about it. He couldn't. He lay awake worrying, and when he slept, he dreamed of work, and in the end had a nervous breakdown. :-(

I was asked to stay and had a great time there for 3 years, building an actuarial system and living a very cool life with the friends I made, many of them engineers from a nuclear power plant. :-P

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Compartmentalization, maybe, but definitely a healthy version. :)

I've often thought that one of the best things about being an adult and being out of school is that there's no bloody homework. I walk out the office door, and I'm done. I've never understood people who go on about work all the time, either. I don't even like to think about work when I'm at work. I only do it because they pay me. Why would I want to worry about that crap on my own time? :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's annoyed me this week that I do have to take stuff home (on my memory stick) to e-mail to people because we still have no e-mail or internet at work. [stab] I've also had to do other stuff here like look for images etc, and I have difficulty remembering to do so because this isn't my work place.

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

As my mum used to say, "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

You have just provided the means for some treacherous brain cells to do bad things, drat them. The last time I heard that saying, I was watching an episode of Taggart, and the DCI was telling his team to leave it and go home. The treacherous brain cells, remembering this, promptly pictured your mother as Alex Norton in a wig. I am stupendously sorry, spectacularly sorry, and will take whatever punishment is coming to me. But I think I need the brain scrubber first. The fear of God needs to be put into these pieces of tissue immediately...

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

That is not a pretty picture, no...

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

I think I'll join you and Bonnie with the screaming there...

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

You'd think a four-day work week would be a doddle, but not when you have to fit five days' work into it

That's exactly what I'm doing now. I dropped to a four day week in September (no Fridays any more) but as the physics specialist I still have to get all the apparatus lined up ready to go out into the labs in my absence.

But I still think the four day week is a good length.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'd do it if I could, but I've never worked anywhere they would allow it, or had someone who could do my job when I'm not there. They have to get temps in when I'm away in March, and I know I'll be flat-tack when I get back.

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

I'm glad Waitangi Day is a weekday - I remember a few years ago when it (and Anzac Day too, I think) was in the weekend. Grr.

It's good you got Monday off - I did as well, and I'm not going to think of work at all. Or what a shorter upcoming work week will be like...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was furious when we lost two days off that day. Why don't they:

1. make it a real holiday so we always get it off?
   
2. give us a proper national day of celebration like other countries have? Now there's an idea. It might even help with our crap sense of national identity.
   
3. give us a winter solstice merry-making weekend or two in winter so there's something more than Labour Weekend in October to look forward to in all that featureless grey?

Bitter, moi?

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

give us a proper national day of celebration like other countries have? Now there's an idea. It might even help with our crap sense of national identity.

*yelps with fear* Please, there's enough stupid macho nationalism and flag-waving meanness hiding behind patriotism creeping into Australia without letting the disease cross the Tasman. I'm damn sure you and yours wouldn't be so foolish, but not everyone over there can be accounted for in that way...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree: I think patriotism and other tribalism is behind much of the nastiness in the world. It would be nice to have a day we can have fun on though instead of one filled with guilt, resentment, and the offensive sexism of marae protocol. I can't help but think we might be a bit more positive about ourselves.

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I love your icon! :D

Yes, they should make it a real holiday like other countries do.

We definitely need more holidays in winter, that's for sure.

[wonders how much actual mud-slinging at politicans will happen tomorrow XD ]

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I made it in response to all those people up north who don't realise it's a spherical planet. ;-)

Queen's birthday is not enough. We need a proper "eat, drink, and be merry" holiday in winter. I think all those seasonal festivals (Christian, Jewish, whatever) should be moved by six months down here. :-P

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

At least people here are starting to have mid-winter parties. :D

I think the seasonal festivals should be shifted to their proper southern-hemisphere times as well. Which reminds me, I saw Easter eggs in the supermarket the other day.

*cries*

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

And hot cross buns. They shouldn't sell those till a week before.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

I hope you're enjoying the long weekend so far!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I am! It's sunny, not even humid, and we won some cricket. We're doing well in this game but the Aussies'll probably rally. Two more days off: luxury!

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Good! I love that feeling over a long weekend, when you've already had a weekend's worth, and you realise that you're still only halfway through...