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cheshcat and I were on a boat heading from Seattle to Juneau. Two weeks from now, not only will I be finished with my trip to Argentina... but the RNC will be over as well and I will be in Connecticut with resourceress visiting with our friends Furnace & Flameweaver.
In a similar vein, I'll note that one year ago today I turned in my official copies of my dissertation (after a grueling all-nighter wrestling with printer malfunction hell). So one year ago right now, I was visitingpomoloco for the night, before flying back to AZ to help cheshcat pack up our Mesa apartment. Time really does fly...
Time-sense is something that has interested me for a very long, er, time. I think that part of it is being aware of my own mortality, and part of it is knowing that events only matter for a moment if you don't remember them somehow.
My second year at Hampshire College, I took a course called Perspectives on Time. Twas an unusual course. We met once a week, in the evening, for four hours. The first hour was spent preparing dinner. During the second hour, we ate while one of the advanced students in the class (it was designed for people in their final year) spoke about their work. In the final two hours, we discussed the topic of the week. During that semester, we discussed time from a historical perspective (e.g. how clock-making technology had changed our cultural perception of time), a physical perspective (e.g. relativity), a musical perspective, a literature perspective, a cinematic perspective, a kinesthetic perspective, and so on. One perspective per week. Fascinating course...
cheshcat and I were on a boat heading from Seattle to Juneau. Two weeks from now, not only will I be finished with my trip to Argentina... but the RNC will be over as well and I will be in Connecticut with resourceress visiting with our friends Furnace & Flameweaver. In a similar vein, I'll note that one year ago today I turned in my official copies of my dissertation (after a grueling all-nighter wrestling with printer malfunction hell). So one year ago right now, I was visiting
pomoloco for the night, before flying back to AZ to help cheshcat pack up our Mesa apartment. Time really does fly...Time-sense is something that has interested me for a very long, er, time. I think that part of it is being aware of my own mortality, and part of it is knowing that events only matter for a moment if you don't remember them somehow.
My second year at Hampshire College, I took a course called Perspectives on Time. Twas an unusual course. We met once a week, in the evening, for four hours. The first hour was spent preparing dinner. During the second hour, we ate while one of the advanced students in the class (it was designed for people in their final year) spoke about their work. In the final two hours, we discussed the topic of the week. During that semester, we discussed time from a historical perspective (e.g. how clock-making technology had changed our cultural perception of time), a physical perspective (e.g. relativity), a musical perspective, a literature perspective, a cinematic perspective, a kinesthetic perspective, and so on. One perspective per week. Fascinating course...
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