Vacations are never long enough

So I'm back from a hard-earned well-deserved vacation -- if I may say so myself. It was only a week, and I certainly could have used at least twice that much. But I'm also ready to resume routine, if only because I dread those first few days back when I'm desperately trying to catch up. Vacations, I think, would be perfect if there wasn't a before or an after -- a before when you have to leave everything done and more, and an after when you're so overwhelmed that you need a running start to be on the regular track.
Hundreds of emails in my in-box!