This completion is, indirectly, about closets, about leaving their doors open just wide enough for people to guess at the real stories behind people's surface lives. The unsaid, then, is at least as important as the said. I am finding keeping to this for the praxis just as difficult as it is in the rest of life.

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As I work at an institution of higher learning, "Don't go to work. Don't go to school" seems easy enough to roll together. However, I also telecommute on occasion and frequently travel for work. The only way to truly complete such a simple task would be to take a rare opportunity to travel without bringing work with me. Ironically, I was doing just that when Everyday Life became available as a task, but because I was off in the woods without my laptop or internet access, I didn't know to document my travels. And as soon as I saw the task, I had something slightly more epic in mind anyway.

One set of pictures and two stories follow. Both are valid explanations of four incredible and enjoyable days away from work and away from school. While the details are not everyday for me, the information balancing act itself has been a factor in my everyday life for years. Missing context is very much intended in the spirit of this completion, no matter how much more I desperately want to write, which is both a substantial amount of text and an everyday frustration. Read the following in whichever order you like; there are unique truths in each.

This is my life.

the story for work folks
the story for old school friends