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March 31, 2003
Not-so-free Free Time
Well, it's a Monday... I don't have anything too specific to write about, but I think it's a good idea just to post anyway. Liz Lawley said to me recently that she thinks it's good for people to just write something everyday as an exercise. I agree. When I've got that free time, I should.
Problem is... the free time never feels entirely 'free'... You know? I always feel like I have something else looming over me to do. Sometimes it's the next 'deadline' for my courses... To prep that next class, to create that next exam, to grade that last project, etc. But other times, it's just a matter of how many things I have just laying around that I need to deal with. Some examples, you ask?
Right now in my office I have piles and piles of paper... some in cardboard boxes from the last move... some in piles that are still untouched from previous moves... It seems like every time I move, I get buried under another level of junk which I can bear to throw out... And every time I upgrade or switch computers the same thing happens... I get extra folders named things like "stuff from laptop", etc. Urgh. It's this way in my apartment, too.
Looking around my office, I have lots of books that are old and that should be either thrown out or left outside my door for someone to take.
I have a bunch of returnable cans and bottles both here in my office and at home that I should take to the counter at Wegmans.
I have a bunch of digital photos that I've been wanting to build into web pages and put online for others to enjoy.
I have a bunch of lego sets that I want to put back into their boxes and sell on eBay or something now that I'm not longer into them... come to think of it, I have a bunch of stuff that I'd like to sell on eBay... but it seems to take a lot of work... Especially for smaller stuff.
I have a lot of organization and cleaning up (and going through... surprise... boxes) that I need to do at home.
That seems to be my biggest thing... stuff that is disorganized and that I've pack-ratted away... I'm like my father in that respect. He has a basement full of stuff... I hesitate to call it junk. He's had years to kinda pare it down to stuff that still has some usefulness, but he probably won't ever use. In my case, I literally have "junk" in boxes... Stuff that has no use whatsoever but that I've just had to pretty much throw in boxes and say to myself... "ah... I'll sort this out later."
Maybe I'll get more energy to do that later this summer. Maybe I'll need to. I might need to build a much smaller "version" of my stuff so that if I need to move to a new home (like a room in someone's house or something?), I'll be able to do so without bringing truckload after truckload of stuff into the new location.
Well, that's all for the moment. Not a very exciting post, I know... but it certainly describes the "Life of Andy"...
Posted by Andrew at March 31, 2003 06:08 PM
Comments
Legos? eBay? Sacrilege!
(hint: my birthday is coming up) :)
Posted by: Noah at April 1, 2003 11:18 AM
Legos? eBay? Sacrilege!
(hint: my birthday is coming up) :)
Posted by: Noah at April 1, 2003 11:21 AM
oops, sorry for the double post there...
Posted by: Noah at April 1, 2003 11:21 AM
Hey Andy-please drop me an email at blogger@rochester.rr.com-I'll be more than happy to take some of those books off your hands. Perhaps we can discuss a deal for the Legos too.
Posted by: Pete B at April 2, 2003 03:18 PM