Easter Sunday "Holiday"?

I have my diary for last week ready to upload but i have no scanner to do so because the library is shut for Easter Sunday. I found this pretty funny because we have been discussing work and leisure time and how they affect each other. Its funny how a public holiday is meant to be enjoyed by all, yet as I walked around today, there were shops still open, pubs still serving and people still working.

All day I have seen people frustrated as they complain that the library isn't open or a certain cafe is not open; 'pfffft, they should be open', should they? People are 'enjoying' their day off yet they complain about others for enjoying the exact same privelidge. This has highlighted the fact that for one person to enjoy a fulfilment of their leisure time away from work, others still have to be working. There is no escape from the pressures of work and the 'capitalist' agenda.

The irony is that free time isn't free and it differs from person to person. Leisure comes from work, whether it be yours or others. This is really important, because when i examined my diary for the week I was oustounded by the relationship between what I thought was indeed my free time and my work time.

I will be able to show you in more detail when I upload it tomorrow, but what I found was the notion that my free time was either a part of, or a reaction to working time. The activities that I do for leisure, take for example band practice, it is something i do for fun, yet we have a prearranged time that we all meet, and we have to work hard on our music for a set amount of time; when analysed, it can easily be compared to the notions of labour. Additionally, say going out after work for a drink, a part of my leisure that I really enjoy... alot, was justified to myself as being deserved. I deserved free time after i had worked hard all day. Why must we feel like our free time has to be earnt?

We set about trying to provide people with the means to fulfill their wasted time and to enhance their leisure time away from work by doing so, but by looking at my diary I think we need to question more so the labour aspects of leisure time and how labour affects it, rather than peoples leisure time itself.

I will upload the mini interventions and my diary and highlight however succussful or failed they may have been, by us asking or interfering with the free time of others whether it deemed wasted or not is an act of force and an act of labour upon the person, entirely against what we were trying to challenge in the first place.