I don't deserve a vacation right now,

But I'm taking one anyway.

It turns out that the entire Epidemiology department shuts down during the month of August until after Labor Day. Even if I WANTED to get work done now, it would be difficult. As it is, all I've been doing for the past week is slowly slaughtering the paper that will not die for my soon to be ex mentor.

It's his turn to slaughter it now.

And I'm taking a vacation, dammit! It's pointless to sit around in my house waiting for him to get back to me, for goodness sakes.

My husband needs a vacation badly. So we're going to visit the fam in Verona. He's taking me to Cortina for a few days, and we're planning a trip to Ravenna also. I'm sure it will all go by way too fast. Of course all of this will involve consuming large quantities of food. I hear his dad has bought a 2kg salami for us to consume together.... But then, what else is vacation for, really?

I'm also looking forward to running up the hill through the vineyard behind his parent's house. I want to see whether all the hills I've been running around West Philly has made a difference.

I hope so.

I also plan to sleep a lot.

It's going to be awesome.