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You know you need to go on hols when:

10. you wake up in the morning and start crying
9. you don't know when is the next holiday on which you are going
8. your massage therapist, with a look of amazed despair, says to you "your shoulders, they need so much work, you need to stretch" despite the fact that you do stretch. every day.
7. since your last holiday, your boss has gone on three
6. you dot Elliot Smith all over your MP3 player.
5. the notion of commuting on the tube makes you cringe. exceedingly beyond the normal cringe.
4. you take mini germacide aeresol cans with you on the tube
3. you actually contemplate getting up an hour earlier to take the bus
2. there is nothing to do on the weekends because everyone else is out of the country
1. packing sounds like fun (even if you do it without a bottle of wine)