In Japanese class yesterday we learned the verbs for work, rest, and study, which led to some group work which I found embarrassing: When did you get up yesterday? Did you work? From when to when? Did you study? From when till when? When did you go to bed? Even when I was in Gothenburg, it was hard to say what was work and what was fun, and I told my Swedish colleagues that my church had no concept of “working hours” only of a “day off”. Going to church then would have counted as work – but does it now? For the rest, I wrote and responded to the odd email (some re Gothenburg on this occasion), did the odd Japanese kiragana quiz, nodded off over various books, some fact, some fiction, and mended a label on my jacket so that I could hang it over the door handle. Some of these took less than five minutes, and we can only tell the time in multiples of 5.
emeritablog: life after work 