# Vacation! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 17, 2004, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vacation/275155 "2004-11-17T00:10:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vacation/275155/1 "2004-11-17T00:10:57Z")
Yay! I’m sixteen muniutes from vacation! Well, not exactly; I have to go to an all-day meeting in Oakland in Thursday, but I don’t have to pay any attention when I’m there, so it’s practically a vacation anyway, plus catered Greek food. I plan to be tuckered anyway from going to my weekly Pub Quiz Wednesday night, so the whole morning will be a blur, anyway. Friday, I’m flying to Ontario (the town vaguely near Los Angeles, not the province) to spend a week with friends living in Riverside, then I’m gonna drive back up with them the day before Thanksgiving. I work half a day on the 26th, and another half day on the 29th, so I have 13 days until my next 8-hour day. Sweet! ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vacation/275155/2 "2004-11-17T05:21:40Z")
Catered Greek food? A nice enhancement. You deserve a break. (I don’t know you, but I believe you deserve one anyhow.) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vacation/275155/3 "2004-11-17T09:42:15Z")
Have fun! Everybody needs to get out of San Francisco once in a while, if only to be reminded that the whole world isn’t like this! And good luck with the pub quiz – remember, it’s not the answers that matter, it’s how drunk you’re able to get while trying to come up with the answers. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vacation/275155/4 "2004-11-17T14:36:06Z")
Woohoo! Mine is next week (vacation). Unfortunately I’m not doing a whole lot that’s exciting, but anything to get out of the office for a while! ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vacation/275155/5 "2004-11-17T18:52:45Z")
I took vacation time last week (Nov. 11 to 14) since I don’t teach Thursdays and we had Friday off. There were quite a few teachers at the bed and breakfast where I stayed. I also refer to it as “decompression time.” It really helps, especially during the last slog of a long semester.