Time Consumption

Is it just human nature to make our lives hectic? I am in one of the most beautiful places in the world, in a small towm of no more than 10,000 people... probably 100,000 tops if you count the nearby "city" (which evidently is technically NOT a city until there's 1 million people there). You would think the pace would be a little slower... doesn't seem to be the case. Every day we wake up at 6 am, Jamie goes to work, I feign getting up and promptly go back to bed as soon as he's out the door. At 9 am, he comes home officially rousts me, I get dressed and we're off and running. I swear the phone does not stop ringing all day long. I have offered to get him a strip of velcro so that he can just attach the damn thing to his sideburns, but he didn't find that nearly as funny as I did. Geez... I'll work on the Madonna headset next. That should be REALLY funny. It seems to be rush rush rush all the time... I guess life in the sticks ain't so different from life in the big city - you just get a better view of what you're missing.