Ten Days Off
I left the office around 3pm, and will not return for nine days. I feel like I'm on Spring Break.
How did I get nine days off? To start, the office closed early today in anticipation of the long weekend. I fully endorse this logic. The office will remain closed Monday and Tuesday, in celebration of Independence Day. I am a great supporter of freedom. I justified taking Wednesday off in the following way: "Its hard enough to be productive on Monday after a normal weekend. How can I be productive after a four day weekend?"
To understand how I rationalized Thursday away, you must understand that the office will once again close early next Friday. Santa Monica Yahoos are to pack up their cubicles, put stickers on their boxes, and make preparations to be moved over the weekend to our new offices. Everyone must be out by 12pm. From a certain perspective, this makes next weekend a three day weekend. And you know how hard it is to stay productive on the day before a three day weekend. There goes Thursday.
And, if I had the forethought to linger just a ilttle bit after the office closed this afternoon and pack up my spartan cubicle, then my presence next Friday will only slow everyone else down. And then there's that weekend...
My brother rightly points out that in a certain way I'm "begging the question." My logic is fundamentally flawed, and its natural extension suggests that I cannot possibly be productive on Monday, having just returned from a nine day weekend and should therefore stay home.
And though I'm forced to concede his point... Independence sure feels good.