What to do when faced with a fiscally inspired two-month unpaid "vacation" from work and the need to spend hundreds of hours in front of a computer this fall writing an MA paper? The trick to life is making little unpleasantries pleasant. One of my friends told me that he used to fly to
Las Vegas and use a snazzy hotel as his office whenever he had a big project to work on. I always thought that was a cool idea I might like to try. The plan for November/December is to head to the Côte d'Azur and Biarritz for a month with my laptop and a 6mm wetsuit to see if I can't get in some very decent waves, food and drink sampling, and maybe even a little thesis writing from a posh room with a view.
