Killing Time
It is an extremely difficult thing to do to sit around for an entire day and not do anything. While fun to a certain degree, the mental demands are also quite extreme. To have to tell yourself that every moment that you sit in front of the computer screen is not actually wasted, for in fact there is nothing better you could be doing right now. Now I have been doing the best I can to get out and do things, considering the fact that I am in Germany and it doesn’t seem right to just sit in my room all day, but when it is a crappy day and you are leaving on a big trip the next day it is hard to muster up the spiritual fortitude to engage in something as strenuous as walking half a mile downtown. Yesterday, I was able to get some people to come with me and go down to Basel for a few hours. That, on top of two nights straight of poker, has been able to keep my mind and body busy for the last two days. Nevertheless, today I spent around 10 hours doing absolutely nothing. Quite a monumental achievement. I am starting to blame IES for this stupid planning, of giving us this weekend instead of next one. Not that I don’t appreciate a free weekend, but I really wish we didn’t have to sit around for this weekend only to be thrust abruptly back into class 10 hours after we return from Paris. Kind of poor planning if I do say so myself.