At some point this weekend, I misplaced my watch. I know that it is somewhere in my apartment but I haven’t been able to find it yet. Dammit.
Going timepiece-less has reminded me how much I look at my wrist for the time. It is this subtle, almost subconscious act that I apparently do very frequently. I don’t feel the impulse to know the time for the sake of knowing how much time I have left until my next commitment - I want to know the time all the time just because. I don’t know, I guess it makes me feel better to be able to say “ah, it’s 3:17pm.”
So with no watch, I find myself glancing around me to find the time: the LED displays in the newer 4/5/6 subway, the oddly-positioned clocks on the walls in my office (and they all have slightly different times), a clock tower on the outside of a bank on the street. Strangely, I don’t like pulling my cell phone out of my pocket or bag to check the time: if I don’t have my watch, I seem to prefer to discover the time passively.
I know you’re around here somewhere and I’m going to find you!
(Also this weekend, my work Blackberry was displaced. It has come back to my possession now and took nearly five minutes to download the 150 or so work emails its missed in the past few days. Unsurprisingly, I did not miss not having it around.)
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1 November, 2006 at 12:43 pm
Andrew
wow 150 emails in 3 days? man, to date, I have recived 1116 (work) e-mails in 1 year and 1 month making that about 4 e-mails per business day on average. I wonder what it must be like to get so many e-mails per day.
2 November, 2006 at 10:41 pm
moxy
What it’s like? It gets pretty annoying after a while ;) After 25 months at my current job, I think I have close to 14,000 archived in Outlook. I never delete emails I receive or send: I’m kind of neurotic like that about correspondence. My pack-rat mentality has saved my tail on more than one occasion (plus, it’s very satisfying to dig up an email and prove your challenger wrong!)
3 November, 2006 at 7:59 am
Andrew Louie
hehe, I do the same thing with my personal e-mail accounts as well and one of the reason why i love g-mail. I also save all IM transscripts. some people get freaked out that i can recall exact time and dates and exactly what they have said. Though, adium automatically saves the transscripts so it’s not like i have to do any extra effort.