•5:22 PM
Do you think about your time at school? I do. Especially now that work dominates my regular routine. Its fun to recall the variants of the weekly University life. If your experience was like mine, then you'll recall that campus life included distractions outside the classroom. For a time, I worked on the Ottawa U campus at the Games Room. This was a strategic decision as I spent many days and nights playing snooker so felt that I should at least be paid for it. And the other location I could likely be found was either within Bar216 or the Equinox. However, getting into the Equinox (or "the Nox") on the Ottawa University Campus, was nearly impossible most evenings and especially on Thursday night.
So I spent my time down at the Games Room. While there, I became a student of the game of Snooker. While I was not as good as some of the patrons, I did enjoy learning to play the game. It amazed me the level of competition the game brought forward. Some of the players, who came to the basement room, were able to gain enough gambling funds to pay for on campus rent.
Snooker is a great game of strategy and concentration. Over time I learned to understand both. Distractions from the usual routine is good. It helps keep the mind fresh and invigorate the creative energies. Surely it can work easily as well today as it did back then.
Sometimes we all get comfortable in our usual routines. Time to shake it up.
1 comments:
"And the other location I could likely be found was either within Bar216 or the Equinox. However, getting into the Equinox (or "the Nox") on the Ottawa University Campus, was nearly impossible most evenings and especially on Thursday night."
I too went to the University of Ottawa and remember it fondly.
The Nox was definitely impossible to get into and can barely remember going there. Do remember Bar216 as well, but didn't do that much either.
My memories are more of the slightly off-campus places, like Father & Sons Restaurant just off King Edward and the Royal Oak Pub on Laurier. Those were our two semi-on-campus places, while big nights out meant bars in the Market and then Hull.