Lately, I’ve had a lot of down time. This is both a great and terrible thing. The benefits are great: I am playing and writing music more, I’m recording, I’m reading more, I’m going to the gym again, I’m listening to more music, and generally enriching myself more. The downsides: I have way too much time to (over)think, I look for work I don’t need, I’m cold (in my house), and I drink way too much coffee. I feel like a kid during summer time.
The first summer I really felt the boredom sink in, I was just getting out of 4th grade. During that year, we moved to a new house in Claremont. I hadn’t made my neighborhood friends yet and I was bored out of my mind. I cleaned out the closet my little sister Rebecca and I shared in our room, labeling every shoebox with marker and scotch tape. I became obsessed with this little beanie baby knock-off dog that I named “Ben.” I made him a little house in a shoe box (with furniture) and carried him wherever I went. Looking back, I was probably way too old for this behavior. But Rebecca was reaching the age where she didn’t think I was cool anymore, she had a neighborhood friend already, and I was left to fend for myself. The Ben Phase only lasted a week or so, but it was an intense week. Like those early high school relationships that only last a week or two but everyone remembers, because you’re young and it’s new and important a little way.
Anyway, I’m living my own endless summer right now. The work I do have feels like play and I couldn’t be happier about that fact. I’d like to live this way until I can’t stand it.
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