This is a clock that hangs in Bossy’s office. It’s from the Netherlands, it cost a pile of money, and its habit is to stretch and recoil 14 carat arms across the workday. Which is to say: Bossy still doesn’t know what time it is:
Luckily Bossy has a method of knowing the time, so she is never late. You see, Bossy thinks about time as a series of one-minute packets:
In this way, getting dressed takes two packets, and walking to the train takes ten packets — and checking oneself into a mental institution takes approximately fifty packets.
Once you understand that life’s events take place in a series of one-minute packets, all that remains is to make certain you calibrate your inner Timex to know the meaning of one minute.
Bossy will wait. Close your eyes and feel one minute.
Now that you understand a minute, give yourself a challenge. Glance at the time before embarking on a task — and after a while ask yourself, how many minutes have passed?
Resist the urge to be all, “Duh doing dishes takes ten minutes.”
Only when you have mastered the minute packet will you be able to accurately predict how long something will take, and understand how to leave yourself enough time to accomplish that task. Otherwise known as Part ll.
Don’t be late!
If you enjoyed this post about time, click the following link to read Bossy’s review of the worst time in American History according to a book with the weird title, The Worst Hard Time.
Or click this link to read Bossy’s story Once Upon A Time.
Or perhaps you think it’s time for another episode of Art Appreciation With Bossy.
time passages.
time in a bottle.
what the hell time is it where you work again ?~!
In my head days are the squares on an old school desk blotter calendar. I’ve got x squares until Blogher.
Making lunch -4 packets
Making the bed-4 packets
Making out- 5 packets
Making love- 2 packets
Making up- 10 packets
Am I getting the hang of it?
Ah, “The Edward Scissorhands” — the first clock built from a Swiss army knife and a set of garden sheers.
Packets…..I love a visual. I’m1 packets late right now.
Bossy made my brain hurt.
And….that is ONE cockamamie clock.
Note : Bossy’s work clock, merely an example of kinetic art in place of a clock. Now I feel better. I keep many clocks around. Most have variations of a packet or two. The car clock is two packets fast. Watch is close to true packet time. I tend to trust my phone clock and kindle clock and computer clock more than the others. Respect for electronic authority? Nah, just easy to check and accept.
Jack Reacher sets his internal clock to wake up to do his Reacherly things in Lee Child world. Makes me smile as I have no innate sense of time and always set an alarm if I need to be precise instead of late.
Thank you, Bossy.
Cupcake loves how Bossy thinks.
9:22 and 40 seconds (picture 1)
eastern standard time!!
Bossy is lucky – her packets are only 60 seconds long. Myself, I have a packet size of 30 *minutes* – nothing can be accomplished in under one packet of time.
It’s a difficult life, but perhaps I can freeze my packets in liquid nitrogen and smash them up into smaller pieces. It would make for a more fluid lifestyle.
I’m 24 times 60 packets LATE reminding you that yesterday was a special person’s birthday:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000131/?ref_=sr_1
But you probably knew that.
Santa never brought me enough of those packets.
As long as your system works, because I have about 2 packets worth of patience for people that are late.
It always sames to be late fifteen at my house . . . .
Love, love, love that clock! What’s it called or who makes it so I can start Googling.
I think we could put FOOD in those packets. Not peanuts because too many people have allergies, but maybe Chicklets gum. Then we could double-check our time with the number of chews something takes. Would that work?
I like that you tell the time with sanitary towels. Did y’know, that prolonged use of STs will make you crave chocolate and get angry? Stick to a low dose.
I would always be late with a clock like that! Love your writing style and way of thinking. Now I just need to figure out how many packets it took to comment. 🙂
I only measure time in the white packets, since I’ve heard the other ones are bad for you…maybe that’s why I’m always late!
Love it! The idea of using packets as a visual for accuratly telling time is genius. I am one that tends to ride in at the last minute numerously throughout the week. I think maybe if I master the art of an accurate minute through a packet. This just cracks me up. I am going to send this link to my mother she is always late for everything, I mmean EVERYTHING!