@claesdevreese
I've always found that the very notion of vacation is especially thorny for academics. Once you find, say, a full week to focus on some writing project, it feels like such a treat, a complete break from the mind-numbing tasks you had to finish first (marking, reporting, applying…). Yet it doesn't qualify as “vacation” proper, but comes close cognitively. Like a non-academic finally allowed to indulge in one's favourite hobby.