...what happens when you get tired of bossing yourself around?"
This actually happened to me. I woke one morning, sat on the edge of my bed and looked into the mirror of the wardrobe opposite, and I knew I didn't want to go to work. So I didn't.
Instead I found a lovely place to live on a peninsula on Lake Burley Griffin within the Australian National University - all for five dollars a week, and they didn't always collect the rent.
It was wonderful, the campus itself is beautiful at the foot of Black Mountain and running down to the Lake. So I spent my time in the library and the coffee shop and any interesting functions.
I joined the sailing club and sailed on Lake Burley Griffin. I joined many other clubs and sometimes was elected Secretary. And interestingly I was Secretary for the Australiasian Union of Jewish Students and the Muslim Students Association and the Chinese Students Society.
I joined the Australian National University Students Union as an associate member and helped run the Union. And for my services, I was made a life member of the Union.
At first I pursued my interest in telephone art and gained access to the analog telephone network at the University. And so I was in almost daily contact with my fellow telephone artists all over the world.
But when they introduced Macintosh computers to the whole university, I couldn't keep my hands off them. And I would stay all night, over night, in the library exploring the whole network of Macintoshes.
And to cap it all off I feel madly in love with Ruth.
So when I got tired of bossing myself around, I found a little bit of heaven. And I have stayed in it ever since.