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Three days off, alone for Mid-Autumn, and why I skipped the 调休 shuffle into a thirteen-day run.

<p>Tomorrow is Mid-Autumn Festival — the one holiday that's supposed to be about gathering. Three days off starting tomorrow, and I'll spend them alone, away from home.</p> <p>Most of my colleagues are doing the 调休 shuffle. 调休 — literally &quot;adjusted rest&quot; — is how Chinese holidays turn into long stretches: to make a festival feel bigger, you move rest days around and pay the borrowed time back later with weekend work, often taking a few personal days to bridge the gaps. My colleagues bridged all three breaks — the Mid-Autumn days, three more via 调休, and the National Day week — into one straight run of thirteen days off.</p> <p>I didn't. Not out of principle, exactly — out of tiredness. The whole game felt like it cost more than it bought: trading little half-days, shuffling the calendar, then repaying the debt with long, drained stretches of work afterwards. When one long block finally ends, there's the quiet reckoning — falling back into the routine with a sigh. What I wanted this week wasn't more days. It was a clearer head.</p> <p>So here I am: three days, no plans, no commute, no one else's schedule. On paper it's smaller than thirteen. But it's mine in a way the big stretch wouldn't have been — unhurried, quiet, free to be filled with nothing at all.</p> <p>Three days won't change my life. I just want a clear head when Monday comes. Happy Mid-Autumn.</p> <p><a href="https://cerfly.net/blog.html">All posts &rarr;</a> · <a href="https://cerfly.net/posts/how-i-built-this-site.html">Read the first post</a></p>