The thought just occurred to me that maybe I'm in such a sour mood everytime I come back to that States from my vacation back home in Sing-sing not because I somehow resent my life and work here, but because I got accustomed to not having a job or any kind of external commitments and being, simply put, lazy for three weeks.
I happened to have a couple days off from work and spent them back in Edison doing mundane things like walking the dogs, grocery shopping, and doing laundry. I woke up when I was good and ready to wake and had all the time in the world to run my errands. And then when it came time for me to head back to the city and to work, I found myself sitting in the middle of a hectic session thinking, "I should be watching TV with the dogs right now." and just feeling so resistant to getting back to my usual pace.
The moral of the story is that thou shalt not not spend too much time treading water because it's so easy to get stuck like that. And life is too short and precious to waste by just being complacent.
The Chinatown in Singapore made its way into the Travel + Leisure magazine this month. Sadly, it features hotels and restaurants that are just too cool for school instead of the quaint places that remind us of the old colonial days that the locals know it for.
