I’ve just made up a new synonym for tourist: somebody who can not sit in one place for a long period of time. Also known as attention defecit disorder, hyperactivity, the jitters — all sideaffects of our overstimulated, hyper-sound, hyper-visual lives we lead. Thank you Internet.
So the daily tourist can be someone who has 10 daily tasks to do, and runs around from one end of the city to another then sits down at the computer and clicks 10 different tabs open, while making coffee and talking on the phone. A multitasker.
I myself am a card-carrying sideproduct of our over-hyped, over-stimulated society and if I don’t calm down, I end up doing 300 things at once, but never finishing anything on time. Now in MA thesis countown mode, I have found myself struggling to keep my mind buckled down to the task-at-hand. Moreover, by some magical whim known in most circles as my research advisor, I was pushed to apply to various academic conferences. And as magical whims usually go, I got into all three of the ones I applied to, meaning more jovial daily tourist tasks for me to undertake.
I love this work and I am so glad to have the opportunity to do what I find fascinating. But if anyone out there is thinking of taking up further research-based education, I give you a jovial high five and also suggest you take off your traveling shoes and learn how to sit in once place. This is now my constant inner struggle.
This post was a quick update. Next up will be more Intimate Tourism related, but for now, an explanation and an apology to my readers for being too much of a tourist, and not enough of a sit-in-one-place-and-write-something-damnit kind of person lately.
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