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Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about calendaring. I lead a very exciting life, let me tell you. Anyway, I’ve recently moved my calendaring from iCal to Google Calendar because I like being able to edit my calendar from the office (or the road), in addition to working on it from my home computer. Anyway, all this work about calendaring (I’ve also set it up so that people can see when I’m busy) culminated in my discovery of this passage in Jean Baudrillard’s Fragments (which is excellent (and cheap)):

Since I stopped having one, I’ve become very curious about other people’s daily schedules. Whatever can they be working at from the moment they wake up? How can they bear having something to do from right after breakfast? How can they spin round all day long like fluid in a washbasin, until they reach the orifice of sleep? They tap away at the touch screens of their lives, on which is perpetually displayed a hysterical daily round, and, from time to time, the ecstatic daily round of empty time (13)

Oops. Baudrillard goes on to talk about the difference between boredom as acceleration and boredom as lack-of-movement, a theme that seems to spread throughout the entire work (it’s odd that a collection of fragmentary writings can still have themes running through it). Anyway, given my own boredom, it got me thinking. I’m not entirely sure what to make of it all, but, at the moment, my schedule says I’m late for a meeting, so I really must be going.

Image Source: “TIME” by Fabiola Medeiros