With MCC Shines behind us and a two-week Winter Break ahead, this is my Christmas miracle: I don't have to work on the holiday.As a newspaper reporter, working on holidays was my habit and my choice. The time-and-a-half pay was too good to pass up. But after a couple of years of covering the free Thanksgiving dinner at the Catholic church or trying to find anything at all to write about on Christmas Day, I was ready to make holidays days of rest again.
Now I'm the ecstatic beneficiary of an academic calendar that gives staff a full two weeks off at the holidays. It goes a long way toward making up for the many long, jammed-packed days and occasional weekends I worked this fall.
January 4, we go at it all over again. We have a lot of plans for next semester, that's in addition to academics. We'll be hosting a series of open houses to introduce prospective students to our programs. And we're working on offering students and community members a line-up of cultural events such as the campus hasn't seen in a while.
But in the meantime, if you'll excuse me, I'm just gonna be lazy. Same to you.
