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Five days off! Oh, and – Merry Christmas
By Betsy Richter | 2:10 pmMy new nickname at work? “Pseudo-Jew” – it’s what you call someone who has the synagogue membership and the Jewish kids, but isn’t Jewish by birth herself, and hasn’t gotten around to officially converting. (Lest you worry that my co-workers call people names, I should confess that I came up with it myself…)
This time of year, it comes in handy. For example, I’ll benefit from a company calendar that gives us all Monday and Wednesday off as floating holidays – add Christmas itself into the mix, and I now get five days off in a row without expending any of my own vacation time to make it so.
While the rest of you people all scurry around with that last minute gift buying bit, well – I get to stay inside, away from the craziness & the rain.
Do the Jewish kids wail and moan about missing out on Christmas? Weeeellllll…as regular readers know, they typically spend every Christmas with their Jewish dad; they’ll come back with tons of gifts that I didn’t have to expend any effort to procure and/or pay for. (Yes, I’m still making contributions to the future therapy fund…)
And I get to pick and choose just which Christmas traditions I want to observe. Company holiday party? Why, sure. Bourbon-laced eggnog? Absolutely. Holiday music in small, measured doses? Yep – but leave that ‘Grandma got run over…’ crap out of the mix, please.
But now? I think it’s time to start a new tradition: the Christmas vacation nap. Who’s in with me here?
Topics: Boss Lady | 2 Comments »
December 22nd, 2007 at 7:27 pm
Mazel tov! I too am enjoying the Christmas free winter break and loving it!
December 23rd, 2007 at 5:45 pm
i just woke up from a chrismas vacation nap. I didn’t realize it was a planned event and it kind of snuck up on me.