This has been the post that has taken the longest for me to start writing. Not becuase I didn’t want to write it, but because there is just so much I feel about the topic, and not a lot that can be said succinctly. I actually wrote four different drafts of this post, talking about my bad habits around vacation and sick time, where they came from, and how I need to fight them, but then I realized at the end of the day, what I needed was a list of things to remember, so here they are: