I’ve been burning vacation time the last few weeks and have found that doing nothing is exhausting. Day after day, night after night, I have, for the majority of the time, done absolutely nothing.
Fortunately, I started my time off right, with a large selection of DVDs and CDs from the library. Thus, in the hours I am not sleeping, I spend a lot of my time watching old movies and documentaries or listening to ‘new’ musicians. ‘New’ for me is anything after 2005/2006. That said, however, I did watch a few ‘new’ films from the 1960s/1970s.
S-Unit also decided to take some time off of work, so we were discussing how we have been spending our time. “I have found that doing nothing is exhausting,” I told her. “Tell me about it,” she said and added, “My knees are killing me from sitting on the couch and watching TV for five hours. Well, I’ve got to go, I need to finish this show.”
Before going to bed, I decided to watch a couple more movies. Being that it has been a while since I’ve worked, I chose Working Girl and Office Space. Both movies focus on people being fed up with work conditions and taking ‘action.’ Tess (Melanie Griffith) walked out on one of her jobs and then received advice from her personnel director, “Tess, Tess, Tess, Tess. You don’t get ahead in this world by calling your boss a pimp.” Turns out that wasn’t true. Peter (Ron Livingston) also walks out on one of his jobs, but returns temporarily and is approached by his coworker, Michael Bolton, who asks what he did while out of the office. Peter replied, “I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing and it was everything that I thought it could be.” I’m right there with you Peter.