mightyfastpig

09:31 am: It takes a lot of work to make this much play
It's the first Saturday of the month again, and that means a 16-hour or more work day. I'd hoped that, after doing this so many times, it would get easier. The procedures would be settled, we'd have enough people, and everything would just boot up smoothly. Instead, it feels like every month we do the opening sequence from Saving Private Ryan.

According to Time out of Time, Carnival in Rio de Janeiro looks like a wild, spontaneous, libidinous outpouring of pleasure and communitas, but there's actually a large, sophisticated and well-organized bureaucracy behind that making it all possible. I imagine the same can be said of Burning Man and similar events. People going to it get a good dose of liminality, even communitas, the oceanic, belonging experience of open possibilities, but the people running of it experience it as a perpetual logistical crisis.

Or maybe I'm going into this with the wrong attitude. I can be a bit of a stress puppy at times (an aspect of masochism?). I do know that taking a few breaks certainly helps, along with just generally unclenching.