Sweet merciful time off
I'm
hardly the only person in this boat, but it's nevertheless a great joy to reflect on the fact that I finally reached that wonderful point in a young CA student's life: you've passed the UFE and now you can take a
real vacation.
At this point in the article I was going to include a link to an entry in
my old blog at blogspot describing the time I spent 'wasting'/spending all my vacations by studying for exams.
I would describe how while it sucked at the time to miss out on having a "real" vacation, I knew that in the end the studying would be worthwhile - and of course, it was.
Unfortunately blogger really sucks and I'm having trouble loading my old pages, so take my word for it: I used to write about that back when it was an issue.
One of the reasons I gladly abandoned blogger to be a founding blogger at
the Steeple (check out our
hot new front page) is because at blogger the server performance is so slow that more than half the time I found myself waiting for a single page to load. Ridiculous
Anyway, back to my happy "an auditor goes on vacation story": my last "real" vacation occured during the interval between university graduation and the start of my job as an IT auditor. The trips were amazingly fun and I should get around to posting some pictures sometime. Well, here's a link to
a very small handful:
After
thinking about where I'll go, to enjoy the holidays, reality intruded: I'll mostly be close to home with friends and family for Christmas the following holidays. Which will be fine, albeit a bit anticlimactic.
I do, however, have a four-week vacation scheduled for the spring - now
that will be a
real vacation.
So much so, that I might just spend part of this vacation planning that one. A perfectly logical plan of attack, no?