I apologize before I even start. This will be another dichotomy with a solution that ends up predictably somewhere in between.... like what always (for moderate values of always) happens.
Lately I have really bonded with a couple of my roommates and we have spent a lot of talking. Sometimes when one of us needs to discuss something and sometimes just because it is fun. As a result of this I have not worked on some of my projects as much as I would have liked. However, this weekend they were both gone and I spent the majority of the time reading (delicious) and writing or doing other projects. It was excellent, and reminded me of the summer before returning to grad school. Very productive but low on sociality, the opposite of the past couple of weeks lots of sociality not much productivity. Both are good, and I enjoy both but what I seem to be bad at is having a balance between them, at least in the short term. I feel like I can go whole months with one or the other and I start missing the other but don't quite know how to make the other happen, either because there are too many people around and I can't tell them no, or because there are no people around and I can't seem to find them. I guess its not all bad to have a "time and season" for everything, or in other words be balanced in the long term if not the short term, but it certainly seems better to be more balanced all the time... I just don't know how to make that happen.
Sunday, June 19, 2016
Sunday, June 12, 2016
Collections
Over the years I have collected various things, some of them more random then others. Stuffed animals, pokemon cards, socks, polished rocks, and miniature bears are some of the more common ones. I also collected napkins for a while and many of you know of my firehydrant picture collection.
When I was probably about 12 I took my napkin collection and made them into a series of collages that we hung in our finished attic for a while. Later we threw them away.
I know other people who have collections of coins, stamps, nativity sets, elephants, cabbage patch dolls, lego sets, decorative plates, etc.
Frequently collection items seem to be fairly useless, at least in the quantity they are collected although some have monetary value. And it can be almost disturbing when there are so many of whatever it is that they fill an entire room (like a room devoted to cabbage patch dolls... yes I have seen one of these). However it seems like the benefit f many collections, especially those that aren't coins or whatever, is that the objects are usually connected with a place or a person. Really they aren't collecting plates, they are collecting memories of places or people etc. which is actually pretty cool, and in my opinion that makes for a lot more entertaining decor then generic cutsey decorations.
When I was probably about 12 I took my napkin collection and made them into a series of collages that we hung in our finished attic for a while. Later we threw them away.
I know other people who have collections of coins, stamps, nativity sets, elephants, cabbage patch dolls, lego sets, decorative plates, etc.
Frequently collection items seem to be fairly useless, at least in the quantity they are collected although some have monetary value. And it can be almost disturbing when there are so many of whatever it is that they fill an entire room (like a room devoted to cabbage patch dolls... yes I have seen one of these). However it seems like the benefit f many collections, especially those that aren't coins or whatever, is that the objects are usually connected with a place or a person. Really they aren't collecting plates, they are collecting memories of places or people etc. which is actually pretty cool, and in my opinion that makes for a lot more entertaining decor then generic cutsey decorations.
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