For us, time sharing has come to mean sititng down and figuring out how to divvy up time with the body, often because certain people want to do things. Sometimes we write it down. More often, the person who has something "scheduled" won't let us forget. Sometimes, we have to settle disputes by stopping and taking a vote on which is more productive for the system as a whole, and very often the more responsible members have to take control and point out that, while it might be more fun to watch eight straight hours of television, the house needs cleaned, and there's still that essay that's due next week that no one's stepped forward to take charge of. In a sort of haphazard democratic way, we manage to work things out so that almost everybody's happy, and that, more importantly, we're keeping things on track with our shared lives.

-Lucien of Ariel


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