Warm-up Exercise

Out-of-body experience?

I've chosen to do the "frame shift" exercise for a specific reason. I used to do these exercises where I would lay down, close my eyes, and try to "see" myself from the perspective of a floating ghost. I've gotten pretty good at it by this point. (The hardest part is picturing your own face; you have to have a pretty strong sense of self.) So my "frame" is less like a 2d snapshot of myself from an angle, but a whole "box" of 3d space that is my room. In this frame, I sit at my desk alone, typing out this exercise with the prompt on the second screen. my desk is cluttered with both decorations and trash. there's a pile of laundry sitting next to my bed that really needs to get done, and several un-unpacked containers taking up more space than they should, because assigning them spots in my room would take more energy than actually taking them out of their parcels. Out of frame, that is to say in the next room, there is the levity of company that we are currently entertaining and a boardgame on the table. This might frame me as some sort of "loner" that is rejecting the warmth of socialing for academics, but that would be something of a mischaracterization. In reality, if we extend the boxes to include "time", we'll find that I've been going out through the night, taking breaks and chatting. Partaking in the laughter or audacity if I heard something particularly interesting through my door. I'm only in here and not out there out of poor time management skills, not some erudite commitment to my Rhetoric and Composition course (sorry :P).