10.13.04
Time…it is and it isn’t
On my side, that is.
I’m here, in my new digs, and I’m finding more and more that time both is on my side, and it isn’t.
Take for example my normal day. I start my day, these days at 0530. Give or take 15 minutes or so, because I can’t always haul my ass out of bed. Anyway, I usually leave for my morning workout with Brad the Supervisor by about 615. I arrive at the onbase gym at about 645, work out until around 730, then shower and head off to work to arrive by 800 or so. Then I “work” (and don’t get me started on my complete lack of work) until 1130, come back by 1215 or so, and then “work” until I leave at 1600 or 1630. I then get home by about 1715, sometimes after a short stop for errands, and then putter about my new house (and I love my new house) until I go to bed at 2200 or so.
What currently drives me nuts about time in general is:
1) I only really have about 3 hours of time per day that I can really use for my own devices. Somehow, this does not seem right to me. I work 8 hours (give or take, lets not be picky) a day, and thus feel that I should have 8 hours for my own personal use. However, this is not how the world works. It takes me, functionally, an hour to get ready (7 left), an hour plus for travel to and from work (6 left), and hour for cooking (5 left), an hour for necessary functions (4 left) and, somehow, one of my hours just always seems to disappear.
2) Ok, thats about it. I’m whining about the amount of time I have to myself. But jeez, just imagine someone who works like 12 or 16 hours a day. They wouldn’t even have time to sleep.
This is why I’m convinced that a 35 or even 30 hour work week is more realistic for an advanced, industrialized nation. It only seems fair, to me. Well, maybe not fair. But who need fair? With advances in customizable production, automation, etc, the world will not need to work for the purposes of survival nearly so long per day as we used to. I don’t have any proof for this, but just look at how the work week has evolved in industrialized nations (minus of course workaholics).
I think because of this we can say safely say that Europe, with their shorter work weeks and longer holidays is the most advanced set of nations as we know them. Far more advanced than, say, the US, where we have to work all the bloody time and even in the best jobs can never wrangle a vacation longer than a mere week.
Time does sometimes work on my side, though. It seems to have worked on my side fairly well in regards to AC.
And I do not like bloggers new link script. It doesn’t work so well.
Anyway, AC and I are (finally) together (yay!), big cheeseheads, and honestly, in some ways, its a good thing we waited so long. Neither one of us really has confidence in how well we would have lasted had we gotten together, say, sophomore year. Although I often think that is needless pessimism, it may hold some truth.
But on the subject of AC…its going to be a minimum of two years before we live together, and I can’t say as I don’t think that that will be a bit rough. Easy in many regards (there is no way I’m ever going to think its not worth it, because, frankly, she’s perfect), but difficult just in that we can’t ever be together as much as we want.
Which is why we’ve managedto wrack up an impressively pathetic 8000+ minutes of cell time. in the last month or so. :-D Hee hee hee…
Anyway, I think its about bed time. after all, its nearly 10.
Sigh. I’ve become an old man.
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