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		<title>a life less planned</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wake weekday at 06h30. I go to work for 08h00. I have lunch at 11h30. I leave work at 17h00. I have regular meetings. To take vacation, I need to plan the days well enough in advance. Every five weeks, I am on-call for off-hours IT support. I get paid every other week on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wake weekday at 06h30. I go to work for 08h00. I have lunch at 11h30. I leave work at 17h00. I have regular meetings. To take vacation, I need to plan the days well enough in advance. Every five weeks, I am on-call for off-hours IT support. I get paid every other week on a Thursday. Three times a week, I go to the gym, which I must schedule up to two weeks in advance to get a time conducive to my continued employment. I must pay my bills by a specific date of the month. My car needs regularly schedule maintenance. On top of all of that, I usually have a routine by which I conduct my off-hours. Usually, this involves a fair amount of social not-wokring at specific sites, depending on the day of week and my mood.</p>
<p>This routine, I believe, has resulted in weekends that are, at best semi-dull. I cannot just go to the shore, go to the casino, make a day trip into Philadelphia, or a weekend trip into NYC. This is about equal parts lack of incentive to really do anything fun, &#8216;considering&#8217; the schedule for things I will be doing or need to do, and whether the money and time spent in maing fun happen is spent well. [i.e. will I really have fun?] I have no place to just &#8216;hang out&#8217; for an afternoon or evening, just to be social and sociable in real life, to meet people for real, to meet real people. While, I will admit, I am seeking more order at work, I have come to the conclusion that I have too much order, obligation, regimentation, schedule and/or plan in my life. Now that I feel I am getting my social legs under me, really for the first time in my life, I have less incentive to have fun. As I lose the fear of doing things &#8216;because I will not be socially accepted while doing them,&#8217; I feel a loss of incentive to do them because either &#8216;its time is past&#8217; or, worse yet, &#8216;my time is past.&#8217; More and more, I am getting bored trying to have fun, and that is because, I feel, I am no longer feel the spontaneity which allowed me to get over my fears and have fun. Things are just too well planned for me, and I do not like it.</p>
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