NUMBER THEORY
60 seconds in a minute. 60 minutes in an hour. 24 hours in a day. 7.5 hours in a working day. 4 hours from 9.00am till lunchtime. 1 hour for lunch. 20 minutes on the bus. 10 minutes walk from the train station to the office. 5 minutes to grab a coffee. 2 hours for each detail. 1 trillion joinery details. A deadline. Another deadline. 1 hour to wait. 20 minutes to present. 5 minutes to buy presents. 20 minutes to drive to the airport at 6am. 3725492645 pages to a document. 16 drawings to correlate with the document. 60 crisp plastic notes to hand over for a ham. 3 hours to drive home for Christmas. 38 the temperature on Saturday. 5 cases of wine to pick up. 4 custom wrapping papers by Max to dry. 9 pieces of sticky tape on average. 3 coats of paint. 1 giant scale rule hung on the wall.
Not enough hours, days, minutes. Frantic. Swamped. Exhausted.
I love the contrasts: it feels like 1 trillion details, and it is precisely 3 coats of paint.
Fantastic scale rule!
Posted by:di | December 21, 2005 at 09:56 PM
heavens! I am exhausted now.
May time expand so that you can fulfill your tasks ahead.
Posted by:jess | December 21, 2005 at 11:37 PM
Woman, you're exhausted because you forgot the two minutes for "consume delicious, soothing muffin."
Posted by:cari | December 22, 2005 at 02:28 AM
i know what you mean...
Posted by:joyce | December 22, 2005 at 05:28 AM
Awesome analogy.
Posted by:Karen | December 22, 2005 at 06:09 AM
sending sympathy. take 30 minutes for a long hot bath!
Posted by:lisa s | December 22, 2005 at 08:04 AM
Man, You wore me out. I'm going to go sleep for 8 hours, well maybe a little less.
Posted by:Gina L | December 22, 2005 at 10:05 AM
love the photo. wow. and what a post. so real.
Posted by:lisa | December 22, 2005 at 05:18 PM
I feel you:)
Posted by:joy madison | December 27, 2005 at 06:38 PM