2026-04-22 My holidays are coming up
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I have a part time job, 60%. I don't work on Fridays and the remaining
days I take as a few weeks here and there. Starting next week I have
two weeks off by myself and then -- so Trump willing -- we might go on
a two week trip to eastern Anatolia, Georgia and Armenia. We'll see!
Perhaps they'll cancel the flights, who knows.

Ever since the beginning of the month I've had hayfever again. I must
have taken six or seven anti-histamines since then. I usually don't
need one every day. It's strange. Often the hayfever is at its worst
just after the rain. Everybody says that after the rain the air is
clean but I think my nemesis likes the send its pollen into the air
after the rain.

When I work, I usually don't have the time and leisure to be bored. I
can't really lounge about and spend hours reading, looking out the
window, looking at plants and bees, running, walking, making music on
the synths, trying to draw and paint. The evenings I often fill with
two hours of gaming at the computer, role-playing games and wargames,
organized via IRC, with video or audio chat via Jitsi or Galène -- and
ever more rarely, Discord. It's still the place to meet people.

And the weekends I spend with my wife, doing things, going places,
meeting friends and family. It's never that lazy summer nights that
turn into weeks where the heat seeps into your bones and the flies are
buzzing, trying to find a way out of the apartment, even the sparrows
are tired of the heat, all the birds fall silent because spring is
over. Those long summer evenings where the sun keeps on shining
forever. I miss those.

I feel like work weeks keep my soul compressed into a little ball.
It's hard and it's waiting, motionless, lifeless, enduring. And when
the holidays begin, it starts to warm up and unfold, slowly,
carefully, start to breathe again, gain some colour. It takes days. It
takes two weeks. And therefore it's important for those kinds of
holidays to be longer.

What I'm hoping to do when my two week break starts is do more
jogging. I'd like to get up to 20 km runs again. I'd like to make
music again.

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