How to beat the post-holiday blues

1) Immerse yourself in work/study - no time to think about the absence of sun/signficant other/mojitos/beach.
2) Make sure you have jet lag - makes the days go by faster when you have no idea what time of day it is.
3) Watch a lot of mind-numbing re-runs of 90s TV shows on the internet, in bed, under your covers - also helpful for sleeping your jet lag away.
4) Break/lose your phone or don't pay the previous month's bill - you have to be more creative in getting touch with your friends and loved ones to moan about how dreary your life is.
5) Make all those appointments with the doctor, dentist and psychologist that you were supposed to have arranged 3 months ago - sure to keep you busy and your mind occupied.
6) Select and edit the top 200 of all your 500 holiday photos - you'll soon start wishing you hadn't gone on holiday in the first place.


Definitely wish I hadn't gone there...


...or there...


...or there...

-SIGH-

Doctor, doctor...

Hernando led Schultes into the park where they stopped en route to the pensión to have their shoes shined by an old man who had set up his station beneath the shade of an enormous ficus tree. Just behind them the steeple o the San Francisco church rose above the red-tiled roofs of the city. Four stories high, it was as tall as any building in Bogotá.
"Orange peels?" the bootblack asked as Schultes placed his oxfords on the small wooden step.
"Excuse me?"
"Do you want me to use orange peels, Doctor?"
"For the leather," Hernando explained.
"Sure, why not?" Schultes said. "But how did you know I was a doctor?"
"In this country," the man said casually as he rubbed the fruit along the instep of the shoe, "every son of a bitch with a tie and a pair of bifocals is a doctor."
"I see." He turned to Hernando. "Ten years of training, and all I really needed was a pair of glasses and a proper suit coat."

From One River by Wade Davis (1996)