Holidays

Here in the south, we are a land of infinite wisdom.  And in their infinite wisdom, the state has decided that we state employees don't need federal holidays.  I have to admit that this rather unusual approach by the state doesn't bother me much for quite a lot of the year, especially those days when it's not a federal holiday.
But when we are approaching  a holiday, say Labor Day, and I see all my friends and colleagues elsewhere discussing this that or other plans for Monday, I tend to get jealous. 

Yours, grateful that when they give us the fourth of July off they usually only make us work one Saturday to make up for it,
N.