It’s been a bit difficult to work. I don’t have air conditioning, and Summer seems to have abruptly noticed itself here and the heat and humidity have been oppressive. This isn’t the most recent screenshot, but it gives a pretty…
I’m starting to recover a bit of energy, though the unseasonal coolness I’ve been enjoying for the past week is supposed to end tomorrow so we’ll see how that lasts. I’ve cut a few distractions out from my daily routine…
I just realized at 10:20am that I’d been meaning to have something up at 10:00am. Oops! I’ve been, for the last little while, in a state of slightly frantic energy with no particular direction to vent it in. My brain…
Not a great week. I thought my energy would pick up as the weather cooled off a bit, but if anything it’s been the opposite, where I’ve been feeling weirder and more out of sorts as the temperature drops from…
Well. The piece I wanted to put up next still isn’t done. It’s up over 3200 words now, but still has a few hundred more to go. If that were all it was I’d just bang them out and put…
I don’t have anything right now. I feel overstimulated and harried. The world is clipping like noise through speakers, fuzzy and electric and slightly wrong, so I don’t think I’m going to write a whole thing today. I don’t think…
Each job carries its own kind of stress. Some jobs are physically taxing, exhausting to bone and muscle, while leaving the mind relatively free. Some jobs are intellectually demanding, forcing a state of deep thought, deep focus, which carries its…
I have made an album. It is entirely instrumental electronic music, largely inspired by video games but not beholden to the formatting constraints I’d worry about if I were actually composing for a game soundtrack. Right now I’m still too…
A couple of years ago, I was driving across the Bay Bridge when I realized it wasn’t over. That makes it sound like I was in a way darker place than I really was, but there was a part of…
Whenever I decide I’m not going to do something I’d intended to do, whenever I decide to let myself off the hook, my jaw loosens. I don’t notice the tension until it’s gone. I put these burdens on myself and…
