Things I accomplished over spring break:
- Beating Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood.
- Playing a game of Through the Ages online (outcome TBD).
- Cleaning out the DVR, including finishing the season (and likely the series) of No Ordinary Family.
- Implementing an online app for students to enter their roommate requests for an upcoming overnight field trip.
- Completing the data model code for an Android app I’m working on.
- Discovering some really great music, as well as the convenience of Amazon’s music store and cloud storage service.
- Getting to the Y five times.
- Cleaning up the den.
- Doing some laundry.
Things I did not accomplish over spring break:
- Getting any work done on the user level functionality of my Android app.
- Making beer.
- Eating sensibly.
- Giving blood (but I rescheduled for this week).
- Making a doctor’s appointment for a non-urgent quality of life issue.
- Mowing the grass.
- Cleaning the rest of the house.
You can score me on these however you like. I’m sorry to see spring break go. That’s true despite two things I’ve said a number of times before: a) I like my job and b) I let myself get lonely during these long stretches without mandatory human interaction. Labor has virtues beyond necessity, but it is in leisure that I feel most human. Work isn’t going to become obsolete any time soon, but I think there is a lot to Thoreau’s idea: “…instead of studying how to make it worth men’s while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.”
T minus eight weeks till summer.
