The Aerie
So it's back to the usual nonsense in life. I have a class, it has homework... so I'm waiting til the last minute to do it. Of course. That means that any other stuff I might want to do -like arrange the Germany album - gets postponed until tomorrow, when something else will inevitably come up to postpone it again.
Welcome back to normal!
Yesterday was odd, but fun. Woke up early for some reason (still jet lag? hard to believe, but I suppose) and used the time to put together a gag gift for afriend. I thought (mistakenly) that he'd passed his Project Management Professional or PMP test over the summer, so I put together a "Pimpology Graduate" gift, complete with a big garish hat.
Since I had that in a big box, I couldn't bike to work, so I caught the light rail, then turned around and rode the rail down to the meeting in Bloomington where he was providing refreshments. Gave him the hat, had a good laugh, then rode the rail back up to work.
I finished up at work and then took the 16 bus to the U of MN, with no clear plan on how to get back from the U to my home (there are no direct buses). But there was an open house going on for the college program that I've joined, so I figured I'd stop by and see what was up.
I was surprised at what a big deal it was! Held in the abominable Weissman Museum, there was a fellow playing the grand piano, and a catered hors d'ouvres spread, and a speaker. I met my advisor and chattted with a few current and former program students, and then hung around for the speaker. He was talking about creativitiy and time management, and his brief presentation of his simple approach did make a lot of sense.
Basically his approach is to front-load your brain with a project right at the beginning, so that for the rest of the week you're subconsciouly processing it, and searching your environment for solutions. Rather than procrastinating, wasting the week, and then scrambling at the end to finish a project. A good idea, and worth trying out... once I have time, of course!
During the presentation my wife called, and she was at sixes and sevens over what to do about dinner, so I said yeah let's get something out (not that we can afford it), and she picked me up at the museum after the presentation. Then we went to the campus dive, the Big Ten Bar in the obsoletely-named Stadium Village area. I used to study and eat subs at the Big Ten in the days before any of the staff in the place were born. The subs are still great.
Finally we staggered home at, like, 8:00 p.m. or so. I was too tuckered to get my homework done, so I'm doing it now.
So a weird, inside-out kind of day yesterday. Today was nice though. The twins' high school has a "late start" day (10:00 a.m.), so the spouse and I went off to the Birchwood Cafe for breakfast together, then I biked into work only a little late. From here I'll bike to class at 5:00, then home at 7:30.
Posted by Albatross at September 13, 2006 11:31 AM | TrackBack