I’ve been thinking about routine and repetition recently, with my new subject choices at school, every day is very much the same. The same set of 4 subjects every. single. day.
I find that routine is useful, but it can be overbearing and limiting. As I noted, school every weekday gets boring, especially with the very little variety in lessons. My evenings are usually filled with homework, Tuesdays and Thursdays are a bit of a change, the Tuesday Explorer meeting being fun, often quite random - which is great. The Thursday bellringing sessions can be both pleasurable and annoying - the average age of the group is probably near 60, which is the bad part. Yet, it can be fun, but the same things are done there every week - routine.
Saturdays are really the only free time I have, although they are sometimes filled with yet more work.
I keep a routine on a Sunday, usually wake up quite late, do little with the morning, lunch, do work or little with the afternoon, cycle to Beddington Park, sit in my favourite spot and contemplate the week’s events and happenings. I try to both tie up the week in my head and also blank my mind, it is peaceful at times, a good way to finish the week. A quick cycle to the church usually follows soon after to ring for the evening service, then its straight back home to waste more time. In the evening I will have a bath, to again, think about what is to come this week think some more about the week just passed, and to properly wash my hair.
I waste too much of my time, too. I’m sure I could use my time more productively, or even more enjoyably. I’m a good time waster it’s easy, I’ve tried to stop, it’s difficult and annoying.
I guess trying to break the boredom and repetition may result in some random things, take some of my facebook statuses, for example:
- Thomas is 3.14159.
- Thomas is not green.
- Thomas is failing at attempting to be funny.
- Thomas is not prentending to be an elephant.
- Thomas is probably sane.
- Thomas is everywhere.
- Thomas is not a duck, yet.
- Thomas is a question mark.
- Thomas is a bit odd today, everything 1hr behind, and for some reason has his T-shirt on inside-out.
- Thomas is being indecisive, and eating cheese.
- Thomas is was.
- Thomas is ].
And, I guess Phil currently has the best definition of routine:
Philip Young is back into the swing of things - doing an essay last thing on a sunday night.
I will break my usual routine tomorrow, going into London for a geocaching event.
It still doesn’t help this reputation, though:
of 7 teams competing, 3 finished. It was a nice evening for a walk, dry, but a bit breezy on the hills. We arrived back at 6am, the birdsong had just started as we were on the home straight. The last section of the walk was the worst of the lot, most of the paths were deeply eroded and filled with water from the morning’s rain. It was literally like walking down rivers, not the nicest finish to the hike.
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