Spontaneity

Spontaneity is a dying thing these days, apparently. At least forms of it. Back in the good ol' days people would just drop by unannounced and going to the park to just hang around didn't need to go through a process that makes the decision making at Brussels look agile. Or perhaps I'm just spending too much time with the wrong type of people.

But regardless, mobile phones are here to stay and everyone has their calendars synch'ed to their phones, their laptops, their PDAs and some calendar application online. That's fine, but is everyone really so busy that all that is warranted? I mean, come on, that's not quality of life if you have to run around all the time and to meet friends you have to book appointments weeks in advance...

Anyway, we did a spontaneous trip to ESO (Eteläsuomalainen Osakunta, a type of fraternity appartment) after hearing that there was supposed to be a party there from a friend who'd heard it from a friend. Turned out that there really wasn't that big a party there and that initially they didn't really want to let our group of four people in, but after some chatting, we finally wound up inside drinking beer and making new friends. The worst part was the slight hangover this morning, but even that was beat and I ended up doing a 13 hour day at work. Well, at least now I can leave work somewhat earlier on Friday and catch a train to Salo to go meet up with some older friends.