Thursday, December 24, 2009

holiday travels (read: worlds colliding)

some moments ago i was packing for my holiday travels, and the growing pile looks more and more like what i would pack for a long conference or a summer school.


the clothes are the easy part. they take the most room, but no more than the contents of a travel backpack.

mostly casual clothes, some athletic gear,
a set of 'nice' clothes .. in case of that sort of thing.

mathematics are harder and full of doubts. the only easy decision is to bring my netbook. other than that ..

my parents never have any paper, so how many notebooks to bring? should i bring a blank one? i might start a new project ..

the car trip to my grandparents takes over an hour; we might do that several times. i should take a few papers with me, but not too many ..

do i really need that one book? it only covers the euclιdean case. still, i might want to work on that project while at the airport ..



underlying all of this, the general rule is:

don't bring much; it's rude.
in fact, try not to bring anything ..
.. but there's always so much to do.

they don't understand;
they won't understand.

then again, maybe it's me. have i become so excessively work-driven that i can't .. or won't take time off? [1]


[sighs]

if it weren't for 1 1/2 weeks of holidays and birthdays,
if it were just a weekend,
not enough time to do any real work ..

.. then this would be a lot simpler.

[1] that could explain a few break-ups and relationship troubles. the few times i meet someone, i'm either on holiday or between jobs. subsequently i don't think they realised how much i usually work (i.e. what they had gotten into). \-:

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