When I was in school I used to keep a calendar into which I would write the due dates of all my major assignments. Or rather, I used to move the due dates up a week to freak myself out that they were due sooner than I thought, and this is just one reason I never pulled an all-nighter for an assignment. Because even though I did this
every semester, I never remembered I'd done it when the assignments started to come due.
It's like that with vacation time.
I kept thinking I couldn't have much vacation time left, because to my mind every time I took a day off was a huge event, since I kind of know all there is to know (except, weirdly, the location of the supply cabinets) and without my presence nobody knows who to talk to or where to meet or how to find the package UPS said it delivered. OH THE HEADY POWER.
Anyway, these days off took on a huge importance in my mind, and so I figured I probably only had three or four more days of vacation time and sick leave coming. As it turns out, I have ten days of sick leave, two personal holidays, and sixteen days of vacation currently accrued. I could have taken February off!
Except I can't, because see: everything falling apart without me. Also I'm taking four days in May, and twelve days seems
so much less than sixteen.
Still. It's all kinds of exciting to at least KNOW how much time off I have.
In other news, I flailed a few days ago because I couldn't recall who sent me the KEEP CALM AND MAKE TEA image that I used for the centre of my Massive LJ Collage.
chronographia let me know that it was her who made the Make Tea image, and I wanted to give credit and
link to the post she made (also to be found at
her website here).