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Category: TODAY

  • Strange Currencies

    In between working and a spiralled construction project, I've been watching TV which is one of my favorite things to do (I was going to say "favorite things to do to unwind" but no: it is one of my favorite things to do, period). One thing was watching Season 3 of "The Bear" which has…

  • as if

    So I am a director for a local amateur theater. Sometimes I take it very seriously and I have to remind myself that in a town of half a million only about 500 at most might be interested in seeing a play in English and half of those won't be interested in any particular play…

  • Curiouser

    I don't understand why we were told that curiosity killed a cat as if this were a reason not to be curious but a lot of people definitely aren't curious and it always seems weird to me. It's fun to know things. When I was younger, before the internet, I would call the library or…

  • medium roast in a medium town

    One thing I kind of love about living in a medium-sized town is that there's always something going on. It's never so little that you're at a loss for ideas, and never so much that you can't manage to find what you want to do or choose (though sometimes choosing can be a bit tricky).…

  • see what I mean

    I guess several newspapers (notably The Guardian) ran articles in the last few weeks about aphantasia, the inability to picture things in your mind. It affects, they conjectured, about four percent of people, though I don't know how they determined that. Three people in the span of two weeks told me they had it, therefore…

  • birds of a feather

    The birds came back to start roosting in the trees in the courtyard behind the apartment. There are several large trees and by the middle of summer every branch will be heavy with them, I don't think they're supposed to be there but they are. They fly around the city during the day and I'm sure it causes actual…

  • chrysalis

    When feeling bad, as I have been lately, one of the things that helps me is to think of what I want and then try to put that into the world. Yesterday I wrote a thank you note to someone who had written an article about music that I enjoyed reading. Sometimes I stop people…

  • players gonna play

    I have a task manager on my phone where I type in things I want to do and every week I have a fresh notebook page where I write down the things I want to do (different parts of the page for different things) and I also have alarms to remind me to do things…

  • More than 59 probably

    Briefly, as I sit in another airport on the next to the last leg of this. I am primarily thinking that it's funny how much humans in general annoy me, for example the woman seated behind me loudly on her phone, and yet how what brings me the most happiness is people. The people I've…

  • RE/search

    One thing that I remember is that I felt so odd and like I didn't belong, and I met people who also didn't belong but then amongst them there was also belonging and not, an inner and outer circle. Eventually, I didn't care, I understood loneliness as a natural state. When these books came to…