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Work-Life Balance Crisis
Help.
Help.
I have a good job - so far I'm not being d#cked by "these troubled economic times". Get into my office (no beknighted cube) around 7:45 am, out again around 6 pm. Beautiful wife of a certain age, bright children who aren't yet binge drinking or knifing policepersons. But there's a dark spot in this paradise of "work-life balance". (sorry)
A box of black depression sits in the bedroom and it just keeps filling up.
What with?
Unread copies of The Word Magazine.
And now there's shame to go with the black dog funk.
The magazine is great. I have few complaints and if I do complain about something then that's all part of the [previous] fun. I can't _get_ to the magazine. The box is only inches away, but I just can't seem to lever enough time into the week to read it. The crusty build-up dates back to around July 2007. Most copies are still in the plastic.
What's to blame? It's the interweb I tell you. The TV and all manner of hard copy printed, ahem, word, has faded into dusty misuse in favour of that networked temptress. I spend hours consuming news sites and blogs. While I eagerly await and revell in your podcast, the mag lies undisturbed. It's possible I may resort to self-harm - although I may need to check on the net to see exactly what it involves.
How do we fit hard copy magazines into our busy, modern lives? Help, please.
P.S. Mojo also sits unread in the box too. Even more unread, if that's possible
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Simple tip
Leave it in the bathroom. Works for me.
Heads up to all the Word marketing people
The Word is the only magazine in our small room that Mrs C reads. This leads to each edition being left....articles outwards! Causing stress to the magazine leaving it dog-eared and in bits unlike the other usual suspects in the specially bought pastel magazine holder. On occasion she removes the Word from the bathroom completely. You can imagine my pain.
Dog eared mag
must be music to Word HQ's ears.
I've got the same problem with the New Yorker
although I feel slightly redeemed by the fact that much of their content is online, and can thus be read while I'm at work.
Perhaps there is a demand for...
A digital Word magazine subscription. Some kind of on-line access to all the articles from the magazine. I think most of us spend an unhealthy amount of time on the Internet, certainly significant amounts of time on this here blog. So what say those responsible for The Word magazine? Any chance of digital access to your magazine. Would anyone like to start the bidding at what would be a fair price for such a service?
Leave it in the bog...
is the answer. And read it gradually over a month.
Actually
I read hardly any of this months edition. It wasnt very good i am afraid so awaiting next issue with eager anticipation.
Obvious question
How do you know it wasn't any good if you didn't read it?
I've read it all.
Picked it clean. Photo-captions; picture agency credits; I've scanned the album reviews for hidden satanic messages. I can only afford one magazine at the moment so this is it.
Mind you, I only work one day a week, so there's plenty of time.
I'm the same with the CD. What lifelong gems might I be missing?
These days, if it's not on my iPod, and it's not in my car, a CD hasn't got a chance. I'm not going to put the whole Word CD on my iPod, because I'll only end up wanting to keep about 1/4 of the tracks, so...
...the CDs end up in my car, about 6 of them at the moment, in anticipation of the necessary long journey when they'll all get a good airing. Current reckoning says I'll have to drive to London to achieve that, and I live in Glasgow.
If the music's been released for the magazine, couldn't you podcast the tracks?
There's an intriguing link here with the Prog discussion: My most loved albums to this day include some 70s prog, which, you may remember, usually took at least 5 listenings to get into. I only managed that then because I didn't have much of a life and I didn't have much of a record collection. With so much music around, so easily accessible, and so little time to give each piece, who knows what gems we might all be missing?
Toilet, trains & other travel
That's how.
I agree with Lucky Tiler. I have a time-finding problem with the CDs - I am 2 or 3 behind and it's an effort to put them on to give them the assessment they surely deserve.
Travel by toilet?
That's a new one on me. Do you just flush yourself down the pan and travel via pipe like that chap in the Barclays ad?
It's a bit like the floo network used by Harry Potter and co,
but a lot less dusty and a little more damp.
The cd
is ripped & copied to the N82. Walk across to the beach, open a bottle or 2 of chilled Beyerskloof pinotage, listen to cd & read the mag whilst toasting under the african sun. Its another one of the things that living in cape town the best. Hehe. Thanks word!
Gratitude
I've carted a bunch of copies into the small room - many thanks for the suggestion.
Happily we've got two bathrooms so I might get a page read before my ...personal time... is terminated by my 14 year old wanting the bathroom. [Rhetorical] Why must he use "my" bathroom"? Ah, no lock on the other one
Thanks comrades
CDs in the WC?
Put a wee CD player in the smallest room too, and, at one track per mid- to long-duration visit, you could listen to all the CD too before the next one comes out.
Or does anyone else find it difficult reading about music while listening to different music?
Never mind how difficult it is to read about music...
..while listening to other music. I'm more concerned about how easy you find it to concentrate on music whilst having a poo.
That depends of course...
...on the nature of the music, and the poo.
As this is now toilet humour in every sense (except maybe "humour"), I think we should draw a line there?