Hermitage

One of the side effects of working jobs that run through your "private" life like kudzu is a difficulty disentangling the parts of you that aren't work related. It also makes it oddly difficult to plan a vacation... partly because concentrated time off is hard to come by... partly because you forget what it is people "do" on vacations.

What do I do?

I tend to prefer being away from cities... but I'm not an outdoorsman. I like roughing it in cottages that are warm and dry and have a way to play music and keep your beer cold, but have no television or computers and you can cook your food outside and stay up until you get sleepy... take a nap in the afternoon... write until the sun comes up... drink orange juice while your feet are being tickled by the tide.

That sort of thing.

I thought about doing something like that. But the other plan... you could call it plan B... was to stay here in Fredericton and hole up in my apartment. Not just hole up, though. But renew the surroundings... make it liveable... make it a little more like that cottage scenario all year around. Not that I'm pitching out my movies or blogging anytime soon... but I wanted rooms where the focal point wasn't the outside world.

I'm getting more and more tired of the outside world, truth be told.

Anyhow this is a brief recap of the weeks move:

From Chaos





To Managed Chaos




I haven't had much of a chance to give these new rooms a spin... the two job schedule started anew this Monday. But I will... and I'll show you what I come up with.

Take that outside world.