Wanted: Break
I'm looking forward to the upcoming Thanksgiving Break like never before. I don't know if its because of the post-election hangover or what, but in the last week or so I've had the feeling of being in an extreme rut. I need a change of scenery, a change of tempo, just a change of something! I realized earlier today that I haven't been out of the Bay Area since the first weekend of August, and even then it was just to Tahoe with friends from Stanford for a few days. I only missed Friday in terms of work, so it wasn't a real break from it all.
So yeah, even if it is just going to the East Bay for a couple of days, the five-day period away from the lab and away from Palo Alto lab will be good. Even then though, I think I need something more drastic. I feel like I want to take some sort of extended vacation away from the usual places. Where I'd go through is another question entirely, and that's what usually kills any sort of wanderlust. Plus, with Thanksgiving Break and Winter Break so close to each other this year, I don't really feel justified in taking a travel vacation of any sort.
It's sad that I'm looking forward to an academic conference at the beginning of March, if only because it means leaving California for somewhere completely different for nearly a week (Baltimore). I'll probably pull my normal stunt of using the conference site as a jumping off point for another vacation venue since it ends on a Wednesday, but I haven't decided where yet.
Just going through the motions, I guess. I just wish this simmering, omnipresent frustration lifts so that I'm not bah humbugging the holiday season away.
So yeah, even if it is just going to the East Bay for a couple of days, the five-day period away from the lab and away from Palo Alto lab will be good. Even then though, I think I need something more drastic. I feel like I want to take some sort of extended vacation away from the usual places. Where I'd go through is another question entirely, and that's what usually kills any sort of wanderlust. Plus, with Thanksgiving Break and Winter Break so close to each other this year, I don't really feel justified in taking a travel vacation of any sort.
It's sad that I'm looking forward to an academic conference at the beginning of March, if only because it means leaving California for somewhere completely different for nearly a week (Baltimore). I'll probably pull my normal stunt of using the conference site as a jumping off point for another vacation venue since it ends on a Wednesday, but I haven't decided where yet.
Just going through the motions, I guess. I just wish this simmering, omnipresent frustration lifts so that I'm not bah humbugging the holiday season away.