This place is a message... and part of a system of messages ...pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. This place is not a place of honor ... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger. The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us. The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours. The danger is to the body, and it can kill. The form of the danger is an emanation of energy. The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.

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.