Re: Re: New Olive Film - Scriptwriting 101

From: mayhem <meurtre_at_earthlink.net_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 08:00:54 -0700

> Just got back from a week-long vacation in the Humbolt/Redwoods area.
> This trip was inclusive from Tuesday (8/27) to Tuesday (9/3). It
> goes without saying that such a "long" trip would have been impossible
> during my SillyVox days...

"Long vacation" is a relative concept. I once went to Rome for a week
because there was no way to fit a two-week vacation into a month-long print
cycle. Looking back, I realize I should have tried for the full two weeks I
had coming at the time, and asked if someone could cover for me--but I'm a
control freak. I think my honeymoon (three years later) was close to two
weeks, so I did get better over the years.

But a week seems pretty normal to me for most Americans: two weeks' vacation
out of the year is customary, and no one wants to squander all their
vacation days on one trip--so it's sensible to take one week as a long
vacation, and either use up the rest in a second trip, or create long
weekends by tacking on the vacation days here and there, so one can go on
several little trips.

Of course, some people take sabbaticals every year--or every couple of
years--but that's unusual.

--Q.M.







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Received on 2002-09-05 08:10:29