Re: Re: New Olive Film - Scriptwriting101

From: mayhem <meurtre_at_earthlink.net_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 13:35:13 -0700

> Vacations are just one place that the Europeans ( and Aussies) are more
civilized than we are.

And they have the booming economies to show that ultra-long vacations work
on a large (continent-wide) scale.

Oh, wait--something is terribly wrong.

--Q.M.

Stop me before I post again . . .



>> 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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