30th
April
2002
You Deserve A Month Off
“It prevents burnouts and ameliorates loathings and lightens the spirit and lets the psyche breathe and I am now utterly convinced that we are all idiots. Or rather, the Europeans, with their regular, multi-month vacations, are geniuses. And the Australians are super-geniuses. Three months per year, paid. They pity us. They sip their Victoria Bitter and grin and make their enviable plans to travel across Asia on a Vespa for the summer and they look at us and shake their heads and say, ‘Jesus, with a brutal mortgage payment and a weekly performance evaluation, we are just *so sorry* you’re an American…’”