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Anonymous:
No clocks, watches. (No coke, pepsi).
That sounds right.

NOT12NOW:
On 2006-06-21 20:43:00, Eudora wrote:

 
--- Quote ---I used to mark time by the shadows on the floor, mealtimes, kids getting in from work or school... all kinds of things.
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 I remember  counting time in these ways and the strange disassociated feeling it gave me-- time moved so slowly there but trouble happened so fast.  One wrong word and a morning of route recitations could become two hours of insult hurling (hopefully at someone else.)  

I don't remember if no clocks was a rule for newcomers--like no reading newspapers or listening to the radio but I know there were no clocks outside of the staff office at the Cleveland seed.  
 
Before my year in the seed I had never owned a watch but that year it was the only thing I requested for christmas( I was an oldcomer by then.) As I remember most oldcomers wore them.

cleveland:
Funny, I don't know if it wasn't allowed but I didn't have a watch as a newcomer. I can imaginge being told not to look at it even if I had one.

As an oldcomer, it was one of the first things I bought myself too. I remember Hank had a diver's watch, and Jack had a nice Casio - I think I bought myself a gold dress watch, I also remember having a water-proof digital. It was about the only piece of status jewelry a guy could wear. Scott wore (and sold) gold neclaces, but even as an oldcomer I thought that was tacky, even though Art wore one, too.

GregFL:
I remember marking time by 'landmark' events.  Lunch...boys rap...dinner...smoke breaks...night rap....hearing the cars start pull up to pick us up at 10.

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