What Now?
My vacation, which I spent half of last year looking forward to, is over. I am home now and while it is good to be home it is very sad that there is no more vacation. I will really miss beaches and swimming!
I wont miss the French as much but that is another story. Why don't the French know how to stand in line? They will ask you if you are standing in line to wait for some particular thing and when you respond "yes" they will either barge ahead of your or quietly walk to the beginning of the line and sneak into the line there.
Cultural differences are quite fascinating even though they are extremely frustrating at other times. The people on both Antigua and Guadeloupe were very polite and said hello to you in the streets. It made you feel welcome. They were however very relaxed, which could mean that you had to wait for a long time until they would serve you in restaurants.
Anyways, I am just rambling a little so that I could squeeze in that complaint about the French, trying to disguise it as a cultural observation...
No again, the vacation is over. So what to look forward to next, now that I no longer have my Caribbean vacation? I really need to find something or otherwise I will feel lost. That will have to wait for tomorrow though, as I have a mountain of clothes to wash and hundreds of photos to go through!
Move to Venus?
You could always move to Venus, the planet whose rotation time around itself (day length) is longer than the rotation time around the Sun (year length). More precisely, it takes 243 Earth days to complete one Venus day, but only 224 days for a year. Imagine how much you'd get done in one day!
On Jupiter though, each day is less than 10 hours. I wonder if one would work every third day, watch TV every third day and sleep every third day if we could live there? Somehow it would be useless to split 10 hours into three hours of work, three hours of spare time and four hours of sleep. But anyone who run his or her own hours could try for a while.
Wikipedia lists Uranus' day length as a negative number, probably due to its retrograd rotation. From a philosophical point of view, do you consider time to go backwards if the planet rotates the other direction? I prevent to call it right or wrong, because we only have eight or nine known objects to compare with, and it could just as well be an anomaly in our solar system how most planets rotate.
On another planet
Oh imagine the luxury if you only had to work 7,5 hour a day like here on Venus :D
You actually got me wondering what would happen if we all of a sudden started roatating the other direction? Would that screw up everything or would we just notice for few days like with jet lag... difficult concept.
Venusian salaries
7.5 hours of work, 5824.5 hours of free time? Somehow I think you'd forget what you accomplished at work "yesterday" if you follow that schedule. Not to mention how little would get done unless you work shifts and on odd hours.
Besides, you'd have to be extremely well paid in order to survive for 242 Earth days on the salary worth one day of work. At $2250 per hour, you'd be one of those who barely makes ends meet. A medium paid worker on Venus would like at least $3800/h while a really good salary would be around $5600 per hour and upwards. Now before you start drooling, remember that you only get paid for 7.5 hours out of 5832.
Of course you could get extra jobs to fill the rest of the day. I think you could have at least 200-250 different jobs each "day", if the Venusian laws permit. On the other hand, if everyone would circulate between eachother's jobs, they could just as well work a few hundred shifts in the same place, but then again all the spare time would be lost.
By the way, now it is Friday night - jihad for the weekend! Oops, I meant "yee-haw". ;-)
Overtime?
And here I was sitting comfortably on a Friday night thinking I would shift to a sysadmin job which would definitely require some overtime work to keep mission critical systems up and running through those 5824 off work hours :) . And you had to put it all into perspective ;) .
Hehe you have a point that it would be hard to remember what you do yesterday :)
Everyday life
Thanks Eirik! Oh, yes it is vacation limbo but I am actually still living on the vacation thoughts and I feel really rested which is a good thing. I am sure the everyday life will hit me bad any day now :)
Carlsson, I always look religiously forward to the weekends and dread Monday :) I always look forward to the evenings to be home and to be able to do some of the stuff I want to do. I actually dread bedtime because that means I need to stop doing fun stuff and be sensible and go to sleep to not feel like shit the day after. On the other hand, I look forward to sleep but I want the evening to last forever :) Ahhh... the wonders of everyday life :-D
Things to look forward to
Every Monday morning, I look forward to the next weekend. :-) They tend to come more often and on regular basis than vacation trips. I don't know about your personal life, if you're so busy in the weekends that you'd rather not look forward to those. In that case, maybe every Friday evening you can look forward to that in only two days, another lovely work week begins... hm, maybe that won't work neither. How about every morning look forward to that within only 12-16 hours you get to go back to bed again? ;-)
Ah, post-vacation limbo, it
Ah, post-vacation limbo, it sucks! I suppose it means the vacation was nice though, to look at the bright side of things :)
Welcome back, hope you'll find something new to look forward to :)