As most of you know, I’ve been between jobs since 2 months. And with These Days missing I found myself with 3 months pay and a whole lot of time… I wasn’t ready for work so I spoiled myself and got some quiet time.
And it was great!, being on Sabbath literally throws you in that other dimension, the one where work is optional.
I discovered it is fun to be alone, I had the chance to watch series and read work-unrelated books. And since I’m planning to come back and start sharing again I decided to share some of the best distractions I had.
Ugly betty: The best discovery of this summer (picture).
Betty her looks really don’t work for her but she has the ambition for two. This ugly duck wants to work in journalism and picks up a job for the fashion magazine ‘Mode’ where she meets lots of fashion cliché people in a gay Star Trek environment. Sounds a bit like The Devil wears Prada but it is totally different because of all the twists and marvelous one-liners. It’s 23 episodes of pure drama, comedy, mystery, farce, camp, soap opera, and satire and has been renewed for a second season.
Earth final conflict:series from star trek creator Gene Roddenberry
Aliens have made first contact with humans and saved the world from hunger and war. They call themselves our companions and share their technology with us.
This series is full of interesting novel technologic concepts and cultural references. I’m glad I got around to see it, my sci-fi knowledge expanded again and I picked up some fancy ideas.
Eleanor Rigby: a Douglas Coupland Novel
I really like the characters Douglas portraits in his books, they always look upon life in a original and funny way. This time It is about Lizz, an overweight ginger woman who can be very funny even when luck isn’t always on her side. The book totally pulled me on the emotional rollercoaster, I almost cried and I had a few good laughs. Emotional stuff is something I like to avoid but this time it was different… Can’t wait to read The Gum Thief.
Hyperspace: A scientific odyssey through parallel universes, time warp and the 10th dimension.
A farewell gift from These Days and a good one too. The book describes every detail about modern physics (the one they don’t teach at school).
While reading it your worldview really changes and in between reading you can’t stop thinking about it, it rocks your mind! Now I can finally explain you without any problems the strings theory. Those who saw What the bleep do we know may find this book to be more down to earth and thus far more scientific and less esoterical.
Conclusion: Some might say I’ve spoiled 2 months but I like to think of it as 2 months of mind-expansion…
Some would be reading marketing-books and other professional content but being away from all that showed me that all those things are narrowing your mind and make you lose the big picture. People tend to drown in all that marketing twitter and when you ignore these things for a moment, you’ll notice that the hypes that we, digital people throw ourselves upon are just concepts that give us the fake feeling that we’re in control, making us uninventive and dull…
