What I have been doing with my life
It's been a while since I last posted, and I can mostly attribute that to my shiny new boyfriend and the fact that he's never bored of me, which sort of still surprises me. This school year so far (the first quarter is already drawing to a close, which I can hardly believe) and this summer have been largely dedicated to learning how to take care of myself. Of course I have dabbled in money management and keeping house before, but I've never really been obligated to do either seriously. The first three quarters of my summer were spent trying to figure myself out emotionally and socially, and when I moved into my apartment in August my life of material responsibility kicked off full steam. It's been a very SIGNIFICANT and POSITIVE experience for me to do all this changing and thinking and living, but it's trying and time consuming. I've been neglecting loads of minor responsibilities and old friends, and I feel awful about that. In an attempt to make my life easier to deal with I deleted like 200 Facebook friends by whom I don't need to be distracted anymore. Hopefully that will help me use Facebok as a tool for communicating with and remembering people I actually care about, but who knows? The tool itself is a distraction anyway.
I read about this guy who wrote a book called The 4-Hour Work Week in the NYT this morning. He seems like a huge douche bag, but from what I can glean from the article his ideas make sense. Cut distractions like recreational e-mail and RSS feeds and outsource small duties and you can cut actual work time a LOT (perhaps not by a factor of four, but still). An entrepreneur in England cut his entire company's week down to four days by following the methods outlined in the book. I don't know if I can afford to eliminate all distractions from my life (they're what make me interesting, I think) but I have naturally eliminated a lot of the useless shit I used to do just by virtue of the fact that I have less time to do work now that I'm off gallivanting with Brandon &co. all the time. The one thing I haven't been making time for anymore is working out, though, which is a little horrible. The twenty mile Sadie Hawkins' bike scavenger hunt/race today will make me feel a less sluggish, hopefully, but it's running I really need. Anyway, best to all and see a lot of you when I come home in December!
I read about this guy who wrote a book called The 4-Hour Work Week in the NYT this morning. He seems like a huge douche bag, but from what I can glean from the article his ideas make sense. Cut distractions like recreational e-mail and RSS feeds and outsource small duties and you can cut actual work time a LOT (perhaps not by a factor of four, but still). An entrepreneur in England cut his entire company's week down to four days by following the methods outlined in the book. I don't know if I can afford to eliminate all distractions from my life (they're what make me interesting, I think) but I have naturally eliminated a lot of the useless shit I used to do just by virtue of the fact that I have less time to do work now that I'm off gallivanting with Brandon &co. all the time. The one thing I haven't been making time for anymore is working out, though, which is a little horrible. The twenty mile Sadie Hawkins' bike scavenger hunt/race today will make me feel a less sluggish, hopefully, but it's running I really need. Anyway, best to all and see a lot of you when I come home in December!