Back to Work

Having used most of my vacation days already this year, I had to return to work yesterday, the day after Christmas. It just didn't feel like the day after Christmas being back at work on December 26. I think this was probably the first time I ever had to work on the day after Christmas. With Christmas being on a Sunday last year, we had our holiday day on Monday the twenty-sixth. And before last year, I was a teacher, so I had the whole week off at the very least. It was fairly quiet at work. There was only one other math content specialist in the office, and only three of the English-language arts staff in the next row of cubicles. That made it easy to get some work done without distractions.

I had a pretty good Christmas with my and Mel's families, although I do have some presents that I need to return. I got not two, but three copies of the same book. It was on my Amazon.com wish list, but two of the people who bought it for me bought it at Barnes & Noble bookstores. The third person bought it at Amazon.com. We just need to find one of the receipts so I can return two of the copies to Barnes & Noble.