I know that feeling, when I’m coming back from time off I normally go into work early that first day back so I can start cleaning up the mess that was made while I was gone.
Man, what? Sometimes I just wanted a longer weekend and so I'd start "coughing" on Thursday, then call in sick Friday. I stopped with the act when I realized it was superfluous. Fortunately my colleagues are all very competent, and if I were on vacation, the knowledge that shit was hitting the fan elsewhere and I didn't have to deal with it would just make the beer taste better.
I can never really enjoy the hookie days since the guilty conscious kicks in pretty fast. Then when it's that time you would've normally clocked out you really feel bad, and a little paranoid. Feels like you can hear your co-workers thinking "Well it was nice knowing the slacker, what a loser" I wake up and am like sh!t man, half the day's gone already. Then I can't go to sleep on time the following night from taking advantage of sleeping til noon.
I used up all my allotted "Hookie Days" in high school...I cut so much there were rumors I DIED :huh I also put myself on independant study so I still turned in my work and actually graduated early
