someone might laugh at the idea that today i'm taking a day off, but i'm am!
i can already hear some of you saying one of the following: "it's thursday, why don't you take a day off in the weekend as normal people do?" or, "another day off?? as if you've been working any hard lately!", or "come on you have a phd to write and money to do it, so stop lazying around", etc..
or maybe this is just the voice of my conscience.. or maybe not!
the fact of the matter is that i've a cold (raffreddore).. yesterday i think i also had some temperature.. but i was out and doing stuff all day, drinking beers in the afternoon and it was freezing cold (the day, not the beer)! so I decided it would have been better to take a day off today rather then stay sick for many days.. well, that's the idea, let's see if it actually works..
but this is a "mental day off", meaning that okay, i'm not really working, but i'm anyway replying some emails, copying notes and various vaguely work-related stuff; but mentally i'm taking a day off, meaning, I'm not worried about work, i don't do things i don't feel like doing, i rest if i want to and i simply don't think too much..
and that's how it should be!
the difference is that, you know, sometimes i/you/we have a day off in the sense i don't work very much or very hard, but then i'm very very concerned about not working.. it's called guilt, i guess..so it doesn't really count! that's not a real day off!
so, see...?
the problem is that being in the univ. (as a student or whatever) you almost always think of what you're not doing when you're doing something else than working/studying, that is, when you're having fun.. (or not? i do, and i know many other people who do the same..)
and that's stupid, and that's because you don't have real 'working hours' and every moment of the day becomes a potential good moment to work, and because of the sense of guilt academia always manage to instigate in you..! on top of the all guilt-thing that catholicism instil in people from birth (if you're so lucky as to be born in a place like italy for example).. anyhow, that's another story i guess..
now, back to my day off..
i can already hear some of you saying one of the following: "it's thursday, why don't you take a day off in the weekend as normal people do?" or, "another day off?? as if you've been working any hard lately!", or "come on you have a phd to write and money to do it, so stop lazying around", etc..
or maybe this is just the voice of my conscience.. or maybe not!
the fact of the matter is that i've a cold (raffreddore).. yesterday i think i also had some temperature.. but i was out and doing stuff all day, drinking beers in the afternoon and it was freezing cold (the day, not the beer)! so I decided it would have been better to take a day off today rather then stay sick for many days.. well, that's the idea, let's see if it actually works..
but this is a "mental day off", meaning that okay, i'm not really working, but i'm anyway replying some emails, copying notes and various vaguely work-related stuff; but mentally i'm taking a day off, meaning, I'm not worried about work, i don't do things i don't feel like doing, i rest if i want to and i simply don't think too much..
and that's how it should be!
the difference is that, you know, sometimes i/you/we have a day off in the sense i don't work very much or very hard, but then i'm very very concerned about not working.. it's called guilt, i guess..so it doesn't really count! that's not a real day off!
so, see...?
the problem is that being in the univ. (as a student or whatever) you almost always think of what you're not doing when you're doing something else than working/studying, that is, when you're having fun.. (or not? i do, and i know many other people who do the same..)
and that's stupid, and that's because you don't have real 'working hours' and every moment of the day becomes a potential good moment to work, and because of the sense of guilt academia always manage to instigate in you..! on top of the all guilt-thing that catholicism instil in people from birth (if you're so lucky as to be born in a place like italy for example).. anyhow, that's another story i guess..
now, back to my day off..
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