On Being Busy

Thumbnail: Girl outside Compact Music
Thumbnail: Bakery sign
Thumbnail: Rockstar Jeff with his bling
Thumbnail: Julie peers into a furniture store
Thumbnail: Zaphod Beeblebrox night club

So the next two weeks are:

  • a walk by the riv­er with Frédéric, Misun, and their two boys
  • four Tai Chi class­es
  • a hair­cut with Jeff
  • table ten­nis with Dan at the uni­ver­si­ty, then back to my place to watch Constantine
  • Victoria Day long week­end
  • a tat­too appoint­ment
  • a ses­sion with the ther­a­pist
  • lunch and a movie with Aaron

Not includ­ing the work I need to do on my lat­est pho­to project for the next show. I’m also sup­posed to catch up with Naveed at some point in there; he’s hav­ing a pool par­ty for his lat­est invest­ment prop­er­ty. I got us some cig­ars because he’s a new father, which I’ll have to do for Aaron as well, since his first (a boy) is on the way.

Busyness seems to come all at once, leav­ing me bewil­dered. Never a bit here and there.

Then all of a sud­den, I’m alone for days at a time, won­der­ing what hap­pened and where every­one went. It’s a strange flux that goes from one extreme to the oth­er.

The goal becomes a bal­ance of both. That way, the soli­tude is a wel­come change from the over­stim­u­la­tion and vice-ver­sa.

4 comments

  1. I’m grate­ful for the swing into the gap this time. I need to rest up before Haiku Canada week­end at Carleton U.

  2. That last pho­to makes me miss my con­do in the mar­ket SO much; the walks after work( with good music to drown out the vagrants) and ear­ly sat­ur­day morn­ing walks for fresh fruit and veg. Mmmm and it makes me miss the spi­der roll and edamame at Kinky.

    Check out my favorite foun­tain if you have time, it was a lit­tle bit of a walk from my place on Clarence, but so worth the lit­tle trek. If you dri­ve down Laurier head­ing east past King Edward, to the end where it bends towards the left and turns into Charlotte (you’ll notice the Cordon Bleu Culinary Arts Institute on the left and the most spec­tac­u­lar foun­tain in the city on the right. Go at night, they light it up beau­ti­ful­ly. I think its in a park called Strathcona Park.

    Not that you need any­thing more to keep you busy.

  3. Tattoo appoint­ment? Interesting.….somehow I did­n’t think you would be the type to ven­ture into the world of body art. It took me three years to final­ly decide to get inked and when I did the adren­a­line rush I got was awe­some!

  4. @Pearl — A whole week­end of haikus? And haikus are only 18 syl­la­bles long…must make for a very diverse set of poems.

    @loo — I don’t think I’ve ever seen that foun­tain in all my years here. Then again, there’s a lot of Ottawa I haven’t seen yet. I’ll be sure to check it out the next time I’m in the area (and bring my cam­era).

    @Lucy — Actually, I’m not into body art so much. Tattoos for me are more reminders than expres­sions of myself. Not that I don’t appre­ci­ate them on oth­er peo­ple (even though I find there are more stu­pid than decent ones out there).

    Three years is quite a long time in mak­ing a deci­sion, longer than it took me, and I thought I wait­ed for­ev­er! You’ll have to send me a pic­ture. I’m curi­ous to see the results of such a heavy deci­sion.

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