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Hallo! That's German for "I haven't checked my email in a week." Many a trend piece has been written about Americans' reluctance to take vacations. (The flip side of this, noted in the Sunday Times, is that they're going on vacation just totally buck naked.) Most are afraid of losing their jobs. Some are afraid of falling behind. Others have trouble letting go of what's happening back at the office. This does definitely happen, as evidenced by the actual angst I felt that people were covering Ryan Adams's blog without me. But it's OK. I dealt with my feelings by drinking many beers on the subway, totes legally. And it was good.

10:09 AM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Sheila
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the supergoddess at 10:17 AM on 04/28/08
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yay, you're home! so... what'dya bring us?!
moff at 10:18 AM on 04/28/08
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(Everyone pretend they don't know who Sheila is. It'll be like the Twilight Zone.)
HomoLaw at 10:20 AM on 04/28/08
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i cannot beLIEVE no one has noted la cooper's quote:

"You have too much to lose. I'm convinced a big reason I got my own show on CNN was the fact that I kept filling in for people who were on vacation. Now if I leave the anchor chair too long, I worry Eve Harrington will take my place."

comparing himself to bette davis?! girlfriend's on a serious power trip.
Bell County at 10:28 AM on 04/28/08
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@moff: Nice punctuation convention for whispering. And now I'm naming my band "Whisper Convention".
fuckermost at 10:31 AM on 04/28/08
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not taking a vacation is like that anti-coke commercial from the 80s. gotta work more hours so i can make more money so i can buy more coke so i can work more hours so i can make more money so i can buy more coke so i can work more hours...

only without the coke part and in that phrase's proxy are the words "pay these bills". people aren't taking vacations because it costs 80 bucks to fill their tanks up with gas. i'd love to take a vacation. my employer wouldn't mind. but i would. i simply can't afford it.
Sarcastro at 10:38 AM on 04/28/08
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Drinking alone in the dark is all the vacation I need.
moff at 10:45 AM on 04/28/08
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@fuckermost: One of the most magical and affordable vacations you can take, I find, is to curl up with a good book.
iplaudius at 10:57 AM on 04/28/08
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What were you doing in Berlin?
JorgeLuisGorgeous at 11:40 AM on 04/28/08
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Does going to the Upper West Side count as a vacation?
mitchel_stevens at 11:45 AM on 04/28/08
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after reading waldo's hawaiian vacation i have decided it is better to never, ever try to escape the penal colony and simply wait for martian bug women to pick me up in their car.
claris at 12:37 PM on 04/28/08
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After 17 months on the job, I finally asked for ONE vacation day to schedule an exciting three-day birthday weekend. I was then asked if I could work on the Saturday before my Monday off.

"You'll get overtime!" Jerks.
Gayyker at 03:01 PM on 04/28/08
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You went to the new Williamsburg??

How was it?