One of the best things about summer, if you’re an academic: you can regenerate for weeks at a time. Giving up the daily academic grind (which for me includes an often-harrowing commute) is not the same as giving up philosophy per se, unless I guess you’re a Wittgensteinian trapped in the fly bottle. But there is something to be said for Nothing, as Calvin and Hobbes illustrate below.
“…At the end of the previous academic year she had been exhausted and threatened to ‘give up philosophy’. Iris had prescribed complete rest: ‘If you gave it up completely for say three weeks (and you can do that in the summer) that would surely do the trick. I know how sick one can get – I hope you have less teaching next term. Take it gently, old sweetheart – carry on with Nothing if possible. (Not meaning néant of course which is a serious matter, but just old-fashioned Nothing).’”
— Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman