Exactly a year ago, I was scrambling to finish papers and cram for finals, all the while chanting this little mantra: never have to do this again, never have to do this again...
Well, here it is a year later, and I'm scrambling a little again. You see, RD has this awesome policy that everyone gets the entire week off after Christmas. They don't even count it as vacation days! It's truly awesome. But...when you work at a monthly magazine, you get used to having an entire month to produce this issue. So when you end up one week short it kind of sucks to cram all that work in before the awesome break. And when you're really excited for Christmas and seeing family and getting back to the good ol' Midwest, how are you supposed to focus on work? Productive thoughts are pushed aside by visions of claymation Rudolph dancing in my head (my sister and I totally have a date to watch "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" when we get home...love that movie!).
Now, this situation is nowhere near as bad as finals week can be. I am sleeping. It's a similar feeling, though. I've come to the conclusion that there will always be a finals-week feeling hanging over my head as long as I'm a working adult. In order to have that one week of relaxation, I'll have to work extra-hard beforehand. Boooooooo to that.
On that uplifting note, hope everyone's finals/work week before the holidays is going well! And keep your eyes peeled for the newly redesigned January issue of RD and check out the redesigned rd.com!
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