Keybored
Back in France since last Tuesday night – keyboard in hand! Took a few days to catch up on class planning, computer fixing, and T-mobile representative wrestling, and now I’m ready to start posting all the stuff I’ve been keeping in paper notebooks. That means my miniessay thingers, more travelogues, and probably some stupid drawings.
Also, photos and videos online in the next few days!
All this business and catchingupness makes me reflect on the fact that I haven’t been bored for… years. At least 6 or so years. I remember when I was smaller and I’d occasionally complain of boredom and implore my parents to give me ideas. It still happened from time to time in highschool, but really since I got to university and figured out how to learn on my own, I’ve not spent a minute with “nothing to do”. Rather, every minute spent requires a choice between 15-70 things from which to choose. Especially since I’ve been back from my mission, during which time I accrued and built up a lot of goals and lists and whatnot, any given moment is either a conscious or default choice to either do some sort of schoolwork, browse some kind of media, watch a movie, read a book, listen to a song, play guitar, go someplace, study scripture, draw something, cook something, &c. &c. That’s why standing still for even a few minutes seems like such a crime. I am, however, learning that the standing still and pondering/digesting/incorporating is also a vital activity, so I’m trying to choose that at regular intervals. (On a completely related note, Margaret and I have invested no less than 7 of this week’s hours in watching and discussing all three Jurassic Park films over tubettes of hummous.)
We’re hustling to church in a few minutes, but the plan is to come write up our Lyon and London trips this afternoon. In the meantime, here’s the map I made for my Cinéculture course. Each point is an independent moviehouse within Paris proper. I made it desktop size so that all (five-ish) of you can make it your computer’s background and (sorta) feel like you’re right here, choosing which place to explore in which order (but not really… like you’d even want to… [yes, you would]) :
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