Can't say where I am...
...but it gives me pause thinking about Foucault's remarks about asylums. You see, most asylums work by subjecting the inmates to a very rigid schedule (breakfast, 7 AM, group meeting, 9 AM, Arts & Crafts 10-12...). Most people would blench at the notion of making clay ashtrays as an avenue of self-fulfillment, and most patients do. But because that's not doing what the warders want, that's sick behavior. If you want to get out, you display "healthy" behavior, which is to make the ashtrays, talking all the while about how it's very creative and fun, and how the MSW is so great to have thought this up. Life here is similar: if you don't have a Program, school, or work, you have to go to meetings. Mostly, they're supposed to be useful stuff: how to apply for a job, how to look for "housing" (read: apartments), and suchlike. Some are semi-useful, or would be good to talk about in general, if you didn't know about it: birth control, nutri...