Oooh, Neal Stephenson has a piece in today’s Times about “geeking out” vs. “vegging out.”
To geek out on something means to immerse yourself in its details to an extent that is distinctly abnormal – and to have a good time doing it. To veg out, by contrast, means to enter a passive state and allow sounds and images to wash over you without troubling yourself too much about what it all means.
For all you Stephenson completists out there. (I’m not one – yet.)
The Greeks have a word ‘chronos’ which basically means when you are utterly absorbed in that moment in time, to the complete exclusion of all else; a ‘chronos’ moment of absolute bliss and rapt attention to what you are doing. Since learning this I have referred to them as ‘Greek moments’ … and all along, I was just being a geek …. :)