konstantinos’ blog

Friday night and finally decided to stay in(!!!). That’s so not me for whoever knows me in real life. Many phone calls, many plans and many friends that could possibly go out with… but I think I just needed to stay in and relax a bit, after the busy week that has just ended. Besides, Saturday and Sunday is so close and as always I’ve scheduled more things to do than I could possible have the time and physical resources to do so. I was discussing about this issue with a very good friend of mine (and colleague since December) and I was explaining to her my thought that my life is like a constant party. I don’t know how different people understand that and whether they can have the same feeling about their lives but this is exactly how I feel especially after I got my first full time job two months ago.

I had always been a very optimistic person who only sees the bright side of the things. However, I now have this “constant partying” thought because I still try to fit in my days and nights all the things that I enjoyed doing all the previous years when I was a student and fortunately I had pleeeenty of free time. Time that you only appreciate after you start working on a full time basis. Time that you now want to fill with so many activities whereas two months ago you wouldn’t even bother too much. And my job is not the typical kind of a 9-5 office job, at least practically. During a working day I usually cannot treat myself with more than 4-5 hours of free time. But, I am so excited that I am doing this kind of (publishing) job in an office full of the coolest people I can imagine for my colleagues, managers, bosses etc. It’s like these old school days when I never wanted to miss going to the school because I always had a great time there!! (…call me weird, abnormal or a geek… it’s the truth).

Office excitement … and then there are these few hours left to catch up with your friends, your hobbies, your as-it-used-to-be life. And there are two options here; relax, calm down and let tiredness absorb the last trace of willingness to do more things (see “go to bed from 11pm”) OR keep an active pace and try to maintain the social nightlife you used to have before! And by nightlife I don’t (always) mean go for a drink, have a special dinner, go for clubbing or do whatever “living” at night can include, but by definition whatever you do in London on February and after 4pm doesn’t take place under the sun. I am, of course, up for the second option and that explains in a good way what I stated at the beginning of this text… “constant party”. To sum up, five busy days and nights during the week and then comes the weekend!!

Two days in which you want to do all the things you cannot do in every other day that doesn’t start with an “S”. Friends from London or not, people that you want to spend time with because reasonably they are more than friends or unreasonably less than friends but in a strange way you prioritise meetings with them. Many times, I find myself thinking that I am so fortunate to have so many friends in London (and in general) and almost the same number of times I am getting worried that I will never find the time to properly spend a few hours with every and each of them. Prioritisation and concentration is the key here! Surely, I am still not very successful in that but I am trying.

And apart from “people” there are “activities” that I enjoy and need time to dedicate on them; classical old school activities that you don’t want to forget because they had always been part of what gives you joy, like visiting Tate and other relevant sites, reading wallpaper*-like magazines, updating/exploring/recalling my musical library or pushing my camera’s shutter button, and new more social and extremely addicting recently-adopted activities related to deviantART and other online arts communities, related to more of “provato-style” and less of “titanas-style” (why? …i still read that?) blogs and and and …

I wish days had 30 hours or more! Just a few extra hours to reclaim the lost sense of having time for a bit of everything while having the luxury of standing on the right side of the escalators of the underground. Maybe I’ am just too new in these updated settings of my life. Balance will probably be established soon. It has to… but constant partying doesn’t have to end.

(random thoughts of a Friday night… if all these don’t make any sense to you just hit the back button of your browser or even better close the browser and arrange a party!)

This entry was posted on Saturday, February 9th, 2008 at 3:27 am and is filed under General, Personal Artwork, Photography.