Tom and I can't make it again this year -- I had no income for six months, and now I'm working a job where I can't take that much time off, even if I could afford to (which I can't, alas). And by that time Tom will be back on a project at the test factory (we hope!!!) and thus can't take a short sabbatical from that paycheck, either.

Or, as the adjudicator at my Employment Security hearing last spring said, "Where in New Hampshire law does it state your employer has to give you a vacation?"

Linn, feeling more like a wage slave than ever. (Don't get me wrong; I'm glad I've got a JOB!!!)