Countdown

I've scheduled myself an official "stay-cation" the week of June 30th. We're closed July 3rd/4th anyway, and there's generally little-to-nothing going on in the publishing world that week, so it seemed like a good time to do it. Plus, despite my new-found sense of sugar-free calm, I have not had an actual, unplugged, just-for-me-time vacation in… well, it's been years, and I think I need one. Unsurprisingly, I plan to lie around and read a lot of books that have absolutely nothing to do with my job. The joke there, of course, is that I have enough books on my to-read pile(s) to last me for a year-long vacation, forget about a week. But half the challenge is to see how much ground I cover, so there you have it. I am ridiculously excited about this, which I suppose is as good an indicator as any that I'm over my book-burnout phase.

Lest anyone worry that I will be this half-blind, crazy person at the end of my week off, I fully intend to leave the house occasionally, maybe see a movie, meet up with folks for lunch, head down to Santa Monica and walk on the beach. Or maybe just read on the beach…