While discussing her upcoming work anniversary, Ms. Boss made the statement that it felt like she had been in her new role in her job a long time, but that it seemed I’d been in my job just a short while. I agreed with her right up to the point where we both realized that she was promoted AFTER I got my new job. It’s funny how the concept of time seems so elastic even comparing things during the same period of time.
I recently took up the practice of meditation. I’ve tried it out several times before because people said I should, but didn’t really know why. Now I know. Meditation enhances your ability to dissociate yourself from the constant barrage of thoughts that want to take up your bandwidth including – most important to me – anger. Immediately after I picked up this nugget from a book I was reading, an opportunity to try this out presented itself… and it worked. I’ve sat in meditation every day since, sitting a little longer every week. Sometimes, the time flies by – my timer sounding at the end surprising me back into reality. Other times it absolutely drags causing me to check and see if my timer is working… with the inevitable and disappointing discovery that it is.
As I mentioned in my last Random post, I used to work seventeen hour shifts on the regular. While it may seem counterintuitive, seventeens were almost easier to handle than my regular ten hour shifts. On tens, I used to watch the clock. On seventeens, I resigned myself early on that I would be at work forever.
I have an objective measure of how bad a movie is. The earlier in the movie I look at my watch, the worse the movie.
Haiku 35 talks about how I needed an app to find the moon. I wrote this because the app for my weather station started showing the phase of the moon and when moonrise and moonset were. I happened to look at it the other day while, saw that the moon should have just risen, looked up, and saw it. Once upon a time, man would have known the time of day by looking at the sky rather than the other way around.
I know I said that Random posts would be fewer and farther between. I also know that posting two in one week is incompatible with that statement. You can thank (or blame) my bosses for this. Now that I’m commuting one day a week to work instead of five, I seem to have a lot more time on my hands.