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[gothwalk]

Right. I have time to update, for once. This not having time thing has been bothering me of late. I got the idea from somewhere - not my family, because I don't think many if nay of them work like it, but somewhere - that grownup life ahd a pattern to it. You got up early enough to cook and eat breakfast, read the paper and any post, listen to the radio, and you went to work. You did a day's work, and then you came home, had tea, did what you wanted for the rest of the evening, including cooking and eating dinner at some point. You had your lunchbreak to do shopping and other business in.

Reality is subtly different, of course, but I just realised with the arrival in the house of a television that many parts of the world still operate as though that were the case. There's the six o'clock news, for instance. Who in blazes is home these days at six o'clock? There's the notion that you can engage in hobbies when you've a few spare minutes - but unless I make special arrangements, I have between zero and a negative amount of spare minutes.

I feel vaguely cheated, timewise, but there's not much I can do about it.

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[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, all that stuff is timetabled, though, if you see what I mean. The ability to engage in hobbies at no notice isn't there - I almost have to make an appointment with myself to sit down and play a computer game.

[radegund.livejournal.com]

Oh, gods, can I relate to this! Almost all my "spare"-time activities are things that require a long-term commitment, usually a regular slot in my week, and sooner or later they all start to feel like work (leaving aside the fact that at least one of them - writing - is how I violently wish to earn my living...).

Time in which to be spontaneous is a necessity. We call it "unformatted time" chez nous. I don't get nearly enough of it.

I schedule...

[ailbhe]

... empty time. I really do. I schedule weekends whenwe have nothing planned, evenings when we tell people we're busy at home and have nothing planned, that kind of thing. It helps.

Re: I schedule...

[radegund.livejournal.com]

Oh, I do too. Most definitely. Makes me feel like a social weakling, but I shudder to contemplate the twitching wreck I'd be otherwise :-)

Hang on a minute!

[radegund.livejournal.com]

I followed your link and clicked around for a bit, and ... you're that Ailbhe! (We went to the same school; I met you a couple of times at Isolde's house.)

Small world :-)