Vacation II – Day 2 – Dream of the perfect life

“The problem of leisure,” sang Gang of Four in 1979, is “what to do for pleasure.” Putting aside postpunk dissections of alienated labor and how the theory applies to everyday life, I find myself currently in a similar predicament. I’ve never been one for formally structured vacations, where the end result means coming away even more exhausted and deeper in debt than one was going into the adventure. Better to stay at home, relax, and indulge in some low stress, low cost pursuits, or perhaps, motivation willing, get some oft delayed project around the home taken care of.

While they are presently plenty of things that need doing, however, I’m having a difficult time coming up with things which I’d like or want to do during this break from work. My fear is that based on today’s experience, where I spent the bulk of my free time filling monster hunt quotas in Rogue Galaxy, that this vacation might devolve into an extended long weekend, with all the soul deadening emptiness such a thing entails.

Gang of Four – Natural’s Not in It (from Entertainment!, 1979)