235. Clock Time Event Time

<p>Before I moved to Colombia, I lived several <a href= "https://kadavy.net/blog/posts/love-your-work-episode-5-stop-traveling-start-living-mini-lives/"> “mini lives”</a> in Medellín. I came and lived here for a few months. I escaped the very worst portion of the Chicago winters.</p> <p>There was a phenomenon I experienced every time I came here, which taught me a lot about how I think about time. It always happened right around the three week mark.</p> <h3 id="gettingusedtoaslowerpaceoflife">Getting used to a slower pace of life</h3> <p>The pace of life in Medellín is different from the pace of life in Chicago. It’s slower. People talk slower, people walk slower. That thing where you stand on the right side of the escalator so people can pass on the left -- yeah, people don’t really do that here. They stand wherever they like. It’s usually not a problem. It’s rare that anyone climbs up the escalator while it’s moving, anyway.</p> <p>Whenever I came on a trip to Medellín, the same thing happened: The first week, the slower pace of life was refreshing. The second week, as I was trying to get into a routine, it started to get annoying. The third week, some incident would occur, and I would -- I’m not proud to say -- lose my shit.</p> <h4 id="acomedyoferrors">A comedy of errors</h4> <p>The last time I went through this transition, it was a concert malfunction. I showed up to the theater to see a concert, and the gates were locked. A chulito wrapper rolled by in the wind, like a tumbleweed. Nobody was around, except a stray cat.</p> <p>Is it the wrong day? I confirmed on the website: The concert is today, at this time, at this place. So where is everybody?</p> <p>As I walked around the building, looking for another entrance, I saw a security guard. He told me the concert was cancelled. Something broken on the ceiling of the theater.</p> <p>This was especially aggravating because of everything I had gone through to get these tickets. My foreign credit card didn’t work on the ticket website, so I had to go to a physica