6 Stages Of Your First Summer In The Office

'bout that time for a 3 month break, amirite?

1. Blissful Ignorance

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The wind in your hair, the sun on your skin: summer is here, my friends. Even waking up for work isn't so miserable anymore! And the office is blasting that sweet, sweet AC. This is gonna be cake, guys.

2. Gradual Realization

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Huh. That sun would probably be a lot more fun if I wasn't just glimpsing it from over my cubicle wall and through my boss's window. Kinda forgot about the whole working-all-day-indoors thing. Anyone else a little chilly? Wanna turn down the AC?

3. Mild Panic

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Wow, it's getting reeeally hard to walk through these unnecessarily heavy office doors and out of the sun's gloriously warm embrace every single morning. How many vacation days do I have left? Wait, what?! I used them all on Thanksgiving and random day drinking?!??! Why in God's green earth is there no summer vacay for adults?!? How is it fair that kids get nap time AND summer breaks!? OKAY IT IS ACTUALLY FREEZING IN HERE.

4. Utter Despair

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You pass the children merrily clamoring about the playground on your way home and think, "I, too, was young once. I, too, frolicked in the glow of a summer twilight, carefree, content to simply be." You pass the outdoor happy hours and realize for all your stupid working, you still can't afford happy hour. You arrive at your sweltering apartment and weep for the AC you forsook.

5. Renewed Hope

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Just as your will to live is about to crumble, the weekend comes. You're free! And I mean really free: no summer reading, no babysitting, no paper due Monday, no pressure to go to that dorm party Saturday night and try to dance on that sticky floor without anyone bumping and/or grinding upon you without permission. Could it be that your week in an icy cubicle prison is worth this unbridled joy?

6. Reluctant Acceptance

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Okay no, sitting in front of this computer will never be as sweet as soaking up those rays, but at least you're (hopefully) pursuing a fulfilling career and making some cash. And every weekend you can revel in summer the way you were meant to. Maybe you'll even muster the energy for a mid-week happy hour and enjoy a sunset! Assuming you don't freeze to death first. Seriously guys, it's a goddamn igloo in here.