Warp Speed

Time passes at different rates depending on what we're doing. If you're stuck doing something you don't enjoy, you might be clockwatching, and time passes very slowly. If you're doing something enjoyable, it seems to go by much more quickly. Here's how time passes for me:

• Waiting in line -- very slow
• Rush hour traffic -- very slow
• Exercising while already tired -- slow
• Drinking at a bar -- slow
• Reading -- slow
  
• Dancing -- medium
• Exercising while not already tired -- medium
  
• Solving assigned physics/math problems -- medium
• Watching TV -- medium fast
  
• Drinking at home (usually involves web surfing) -- medium fast
  
• Eating -- medium fast
  
• Teaching -- medium fast or fast
• Solving chosen physics/math problems -- fast
• Wikipedia -- fast
  
• Organizing -- near warp speed
  
• Coding -- warp speed

It's the coding that's dangerous. When I start coding, I can literally go 10 hours without eating or drinking or listening to music, and I don't even realize it. I don't think a job as a programmer would be a good choice for me, because my health would go down the crapper. Teaching is a reasonably good choice, because the work day passes quickly, but not so quickly that I'm going insane at the end of the day. I've been trying to think of ways that I could get back into grad school, because solving physics/math problems that I want to solve also passes the time quickly, and it's more intellectually satisfying than dealing with teenagers. Oh, to have the perfect job... what is the perfect job, anyway?