8 08 pm pdt   [ eight hours ]

In college I once read an article by a Russian author about free time. He said that we had eight hours of free time a day: eight hours of work, eight hours of sleep, and eight hours of free time. That certainly isn't true. I get eight hours of work and eight hours of sleep. I spend an hour and a half commuting to and from work. I use a half hour in the morning to shower and eat breakfast. I use an hour [sometimes more, sometimes less] in the evening to eat. That leaves me five hours of free time. I spend about an hour a day on the phone with Matthew. I waste about an hour unwinding after work and my rush hour commute. Now I'm down to three. I can, in fact, waste all three of those hours. I could spend them driving to and from dinner or a friend's house. I could spend them on freelance work. I often do that in the evening. I sometimes go for a walk, or to the grocery store. Sometimes I have to get gas or run other errands. I never have close to eight hours of free time. Do you?

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