The concept of having "time off" is a foreign one to me, so it came to me as a complete surprise that we would be having a break from college. I would say in between September and December, but I'm just surprised that we had a break full stop! And yes, I am aware that I did attend this college previously some four years before, and no, they haven't changed their policy on having mid-term breaks, and yes, there is a space in time where they stop teaching.
I remember as a child when you would spend all week anticipating with salivation (I'm sure that we all salivated at the thought of it), waiting for term to end and for school to be 'out' and the whole blissful free-ness of the affair. I guess this time round I just forgot to count down to it really.
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| Retail? Christmas? Shit. |
Working in retail desensitises you to the whole prospect of "holiday". Christmas? Pah, what is it? No one is allowed a holiday from November through to December (company policy in most places!), busy shops, long hours, hard work. In fact, now due to the bank holiday openings of many shops, most of us poor sods in retail are stuck with no real public holidays whatsoever. Having spent nearly three years not expecting a proper day off, the whole concept of a
week was certainly very new to me. I mean yes, I will be working in this week off college, but I will merely be doing a couple of part time shifts instead of running around like a blue-ass fly from 9 til 5 practically every day.
Recently, I've been feeling in need of a well deserved "bed day", and today, I have done just that. I have sat in bed, read my book, ate a ridiculous amount of strepsils for my sore throat, and have only been out of my pyjamas for a maximum of two hours. This is bliss.
But I think that the greatest thing about it all is knowing that I will be back to the grind next week, as if I had nothing to do constantly, I would go stir crazy.
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| Me today <3 |
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