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It’s a little strange that in the midst of a recession and at a time when industries and individuals have been forced to do more with less, society seems poised to renounce our increasingly relentless pace—you know, the one that leads to immeasurable fulfillment and endless misery.
I wish that for this iteration of our Variations on a Theme series, we as a staff could afford to experiment with a week—just one week—of “traditional” work-life balance. What if we had the luxury of checking out at 5 PM? What if we weren’t writing, editing, photographing, and designing on nights and weekends? (I’m already setting a bad example by writing this on a Sunday—while my parents are visiting from out of town no less.) What if we didn’t have to constantly deal with the needs of our digital beast, our relentless marijuana obsession (not as laid back as it sounds), our desire to exhaustively explore every aspect of Chicago?
