1. What ideas or feelings do you find yourself focusing on these days?
I'm mostly using my time for self-improvement, getting tasks done, the doing instead of the being. Monday was my first day off and I used it to accomplish the kinds of tasks that I didn't have time for during the school year. Tuesday too.
I have had a couple good talks with Myles about the falseness of the nature/human binary and also about our compulsive identity production.
2. Its weird that school deeply structures your life for 9.5 months - from 7am-3:10pm you're dealing with school and beyond that, with homework and projects. Then all of a sudden you're in summer vacation and have no institutional structure. How does the contrast feel to you? Does family/capitalist-labor/etc conquer the area that the school has temporarily abdicated, leaving you no freer than before or do you have more freedom? Have you been enjoying your time? Are there aspects of school that you miss? Are there aspects of school that you're particularly glad to have a break from? How are you filling/wasting/enjoying the extra time you now have?
Its really too soon for me to answer the school question. The main contrast I can feel now is the chance to wake up when I want, to take an afternoon nap, to have more hours of the day to do the stuff I need/want to do.
3. How many hours a week would you be willing to put towards reading an easyish novel that we were all reading? How many hours a week would you be willing to put towards reading a hardish essay that we were all reading? How many combined?
6,6=12
4. What is a small - 2-7 hour long - adventure that you'd enjoy doing with the rest of us? For instance - make a short film, go to Rockaway Beach, walk on the Appalachian Trail. see a strange movie?
I like all those ideas.
5. Will you be able to meet in the City for the whole summer or do you have a planned excursion for part of the summer - if so, when?
I'll be in Western Kansas for 4 days at the end of July and am hoping to take a 4 week trip to Europe also, in August. But hopefully we could keep doing stuff on the blogs and probably you all could do fine without me, by then.
6. What else would you be interested to address or read other peoples' thoughts on?
Family stuff, reading stuff, dancing and music stuff, the experience of being.
7. Post some comments on other peoples' blogs that respond to the above points.
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I had the same thought about having time for self-improvement. Unfortunately unlike you, I'm not really getting tasks done.
ReplyDelete"Have more hours of the day to do the stuff I need/want to do"- How do you think the ratio between the hours you spend on what you need to do and what you want to do has changed since school ended?
I like the idea of discussing "the experience of being." Not very often do people stop and reflect on what it's like to live. Perhaps it is because we are being consumed by our society, and are so obsessed about our self needs to succeed in this society.