I'VE ACTUALLY GOT A LOT GOING ON AT THE MOMENT
MAY 16, 2025
Only seven months gone this time! With exponential growth, by 2026 there could be a post coming nearly every day. Hesitated at first as to whether to keep acknowledging the length of the intermission since it isn't very interesting as a beginning. Ah well.
After five months of unemployment, suddenly I have a schedule. Almost every day I leave the house in the morning and I don't come back until the evening. In the intervening hours I speak to many people and complete a variety of tasks. What a rush! I forget how quickly time passes when 40 hours of your week are not your own. I'll be starting classes in the fall and while I think I'll be able to juggle work and school I'm not sure if that's a product of careful planning or overconfidence.
On the subject of confidence, I seem to have tapped into a new or long-hidden well of it. Certainly it did not appear on any surveyor's maps of the area heretofore. I make conversation with strangers and speak extemporaneously without much anxiety. The egg timer on my brain was supposed to have gone off over a year ago but I'm a late bloomer in most things.
Busy, busy, busy. Strange to have things be going so well for me personally at the same time that all goes poorly everywhere else. A sense of remove from the news of the day even as I become more immersed in the mechanisms of its production. That last sentence was self-important and not entirely accurate. Something to watch myself for.