My other work spot is the brown and white striped couch. The other objects surrounding the couch are a mahogany chocolate-coloured table, a side-table with a glass chess-set, a TV unit that sits below a portrait of a Parisan street and flanked by a book-shelf. Remarkably, this setting could describe any of the apartments I've occupied in the past seven years. I seem to re-create a familiar living space that doubles as a work-area.
Although it's 4am, the blinds are drawn. This is the space I create for my intellectual development. In this cloistered atmosphere, my mind is arrested and absorbed, allowing my imagination to spring to life. Like the lawyer in Anton Chekov's, The Bet, "I have climbed to the peaks of Elburz and Mont Blanc, and from there I have seen the sun rise and have watched it at evening flood the sky, the ocean, and the mountain-tops with gold and crimson. I have watched from there the lightning flashing over my head and cleaving the storm-clouds. I have seen green forests, fields, rivers, lakes, towns. I have heard the singing of the sirens, and the strains of the shepherds' pipes; I have touched the wings of comely devils who flew down to converse with me of God ..."
I prefer learning on my own and would choose to skip most classes if given that choice. In that respect, I am an autodidact. An autodidact is a mostly self-taught person, as opposed to learning in a school setting or from a full-time mentor. I prefer spending time in libraries, reading and exploring topics of interest.
If I clocked out for a nap at 7am, it wouldn't be so bad. In fact, going by the Jewish clock, it would be mid-day. It makes my arrested development so much sweeter.