Re: Re: New Olive Film -Scriptwriting101

From: 7visions <7visions_at_prodigy.net_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 14:46:39 -0700

My reading of the irony here is that you recognize that our economy sucks right now...

I think actually, the Brits economy is not too badly off...The Continent is another story...

L


----- Original Message -----
  From: mayhem
  To: OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 1:35 PM
  Subject: Re: [OliveStarlightOrchestra] Re: New Olive Film -Scriptwriting101


> 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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Received on 2002-09-05 14:40:17