I think it was somewhere amidst all this talk about chinese parents' superiority that I saw a sentence saying something along the lines of "it's what your kid does when you're not watching that is most important." But in today's world of infinitely connected social networks, more choices in how you want to contact a person than you have pairs of socks, and bragging rights for whoever can fit the most events into their calendar, how often do people actually get to sit alone to their own thoughts and intentions? I think it's just as much of a challenge now to figure out exactly "what do you do when nobody is watching?" Or maybe more accurately, when nobody tells you what to do: no schedules to keep, no assignments, tests, meetings, just you and... whatever you choose to do with your time.

So on that note, I'm hoping to use the next.... however long I have.. to figure out whatever it is I do when nobody is watching. A brief break from the hectic world for a little introspection.