Life: House Work
Over the past months, I've been pretty busy: dealing with the house, getting roomates, working at work, working on personal projects, and so forth. It's been a lot of fun. I think the entire district in London where we live, knows of my one roomate and I. They probably know us as the two crazy people who are always carrying shit loads of random things in shopping karts.
I've decided I'm going to be quitting or taking a break from school. I was speaking to one of my professors that I had last term, and some of what he wrote follows:
"There are many reasons to leave institutional academics -- that doesn't mean you will stop learning, but that this structure isn't the way you want to learn. There is no shame or laziness in that, just self-knowledge and realism."
"Don't wait, because your life is valuable, and I keep thinking that this environmentally fragile moment in human history really does require all of us to live as well and consciously as we can. We need everyone, and no one can afford to blow off their life or gifts now. That doesn't mean everyone has to finish university! just that we all offer what we can."
We finally mostly fixed the gas pipes in my house. It took four visits to Home Depot to get the right gas pipe caps. I think everyone at Home Depot knows us, by name.
A contractor recently gave me an estimate on how much it will cost to finish the basement. The amount was fairly out of my range. So, roomates and I have decided that we're going to attempt to do the simpler tasks, and have the specialists do the framing, plumbing and electrical.
There are now four people living in my house - it's pretty awesome so far.
I've decided I'm going to be quitting or taking a break from school. I was speaking to one of my professors that I had last term, and some of what he wrote follows:
"There are many reasons to leave institutional academics -- that doesn't mean you will stop learning, but that this structure isn't the way you want to learn. There is no shame or laziness in that, just self-knowledge and realism."
"Don't wait, because your life is valuable, and I keep thinking that this environmentally fragile moment in human history really does require all of us to live as well and consciously as we can. We need everyone, and no one can afford to blow off their life or gifts now. That doesn't mean everyone has to finish university! just that we all offer what we can."
We finally mostly fixed the gas pipes in my house. It took four visits to Home Depot to get the right gas pipe caps. I think everyone at Home Depot knows us, by name.
A contractor recently gave me an estimate on how much it will cost to finish the basement. The amount was fairly out of my range. So, roomates and I have decided that we're going to attempt to do the simpler tasks, and have the specialists do the framing, plumbing and electrical.
There are now four people living in my house - it's pretty awesome so far.
posted by Mike at 6:40 AM
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