{"id":2198,"date":"2017-12-31T18:15:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T23:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/phdplus\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2017-12-31T18:15:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T23:15:22","slug":"winter-break-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/phdplus\/2017\/12\/31\/winter-break-limbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Break Limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third-year dossier is edited and off to the committee; the last talks got talked; grades are posted. Haven&#8217;t quite started working in earnest on Spring semester yet, and I&#8217;ve set aside my writing until Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/phdplus\/2015\/11\/23\/on-taking-time-off\/\">I&#8217;ve written before<\/a> about the struggle to take time off during holidays. And I&#8217;m getting better about not expecting to get a ton of work done over break. I never do as much as I think I will, and just end up feeling guilty and exhausted when Spring semester starts up again.<\/p>\n<p>But what the heck\u00a0are you supposed to do instead?<\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;m not the only person who&#8217;d probably be better off in a medically-induced coma between the end of the semester and the joint meetings. This year I&#8217;ve:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2200\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ams.org\/phdplus\/files\/2017\/12\/IMG_1129-e1514760285315.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2200\" class=\"wp-image-2200 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ams.org\/phdplus\/files\/2017\/12\/IMG_1129-e1514760285315-300x296.jpg?resize=300%2C296\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ams.org\/phdplus\/files\/2017\/12\/IMG_1129-e1514760285315.jpg?resize=300%2C296&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ams.org\/phdplus\/files\/2017\/12\/IMG_1129-e1514760285315.jpg?resize=768%2C758&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ams.org\/phdplus\/files\/2017\/12\/IMG_1129-e1514760285315.jpg?resize=1024%2C1010&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ams.org\/phdplus\/files\/2017\/12\/IMG_1129-e1514760285315.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ams.org\/phdplus\/files\/2017\/12\/IMG_1129-e1514760285315.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is definitely the office floor of a well-adjusted person who knows how to take a vacation.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>baked about a bajillion cookies<\/li>\n<li>replaced the old insulation in our crawl space<\/li>\n<li>made 5 pounds of kishka<\/li>\n<li>watched a probably pathological number of period dramas<\/li>\n<li>tore down and rebuilt our broken electric piano<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t finished all the other non-work stuff I thought I&#8217;d tackle: the pile of books, the unfinished projects, the community and household organizing, the couple dozen open tabs in my browser. There&#8217;s still a few days. I give it even odds.<\/p>\n<p>Why does this job, where you set your own hours more than any other salaried position I know of, attract people who don&#8217;t do well when they&#8217;re not on a schedule? And what good is it to say you&#8217;re taking a week off work if you just turn around and drive yourself crazy overdoing everything else instead?<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone have advice for what to do when you&#8217;re off the clock? For how to take a vacation without necessarily leaving town?<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third-year dossier is edited and off to the committee; the last talks got talked; grades are posted. Haven&#8217;t quite started working in earnest on Spring semester yet, and I&#8217;ve set aside my writing until Tuesday. I&#8217;ve written before about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/phdplus\/2017\/12\/31\/winter-break-limbo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" data-url=https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/phdplus\/2017\/12\/31\/winter-break-limbo\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3c1jI-zs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/phdplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/phdplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/phdplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/phdplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/phdplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/phdplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/phdplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/phdplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/phdplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/phdplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}