*sigh* Springtime blahs?
In a little more than a week, I fly out from Boston for Vegas and a week road-tripping around the Southwest. I'm trying to get psyched up for my vacation, really, but honestly I'm not feeling any good anticipation right now. Instead, I find myself being all procrastinate-y about stuff I need to get done -- packing, shopping for additional hiking/vacation clothes, making last hotel reservations at a few places, and the like.
I guess I partly know why, but only partly. I remember the last big vacation I took out-of-state. I busted my ass at work trying to bring everything up-to-date under the umbrella of responsibilities I oversee, then went out on vacation... only to come back and find things even worse that the hectic pace I'd pushed to catch up. I ended up more tense and stressed by the end of the first day back than I'd been before I left. That, plus the fact that I'm going to be spending money that, theoretically, I could be shuffling into my down-payment-on-a-house savings account, has me almost not wanting to take the time off.
Blah. Stupid codependent work relationship.
Anyways. One thing that I think I'll definitely do on vacation is take along a notebook and try to write fic. I've got a small handful of ideas that I've been wanting to chase down for a while (among them a fic that's basically Five People Detective Beckett Might or Might Not Have Interrogated in Castle's Presence, crossing with Buffy, Dead Like Me, Leverage, and Veronica Mars, whilst I'm trying to brainstorm a fifth). Something to do in spare time, anyways, which is something I rarely take the time for usually.
I guess I partly know why, but only partly. I remember the last big vacation I took out-of-state. I busted my ass at work trying to bring everything up-to-date under the umbrella of responsibilities I oversee, then went out on vacation... only to come back and find things even worse that the hectic pace I'd pushed to catch up. I ended up more tense and stressed by the end of the first day back than I'd been before I left. That, plus the fact that I'm going to be spending money that, theoretically, I could be shuffling into my down-payment-on-a-house savings account, has me almost not wanting to take the time off.
Blah. Stupid codependent work relationship.
Anyways. One thing that I think I'll definitely do on vacation is take along a notebook and try to write fic. I've got a small handful of ideas that I've been wanting to chase down for a while (among them a fic that's basically Five People Detective Beckett Might or Might Not Have Interrogated in Castle's Presence, crossing with Buffy, Dead Like Me, Leverage, and Veronica Mars, whilst I'm trying to brainstorm a fifth). Something to do in spare time, anyways, which is something I rarely take the time for usually.