Yes, it's nice to have a break between semesters, especially when one can graze through the Christmas and New Year's holidays. But how soon those days of leisure pass! How ominous the storm clouds appear on the relentless semester cycle's spring horizon! How soon the holiday tranquility is violated by the foreboding tempest! How soon my nerves, barely recovered from the semester before, are frayed anew!
And alas! Twenty years into the retirement system, ten to go? In other words, no relief in sight!
