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the sweet release of inbox zero. getting home and knowing that you can wake up whenever you want tomorrow - in fact, you’re so excited for temporary unemployment, maybe you’ll wake up even earlier than usual. you‘ll take a walk first thing in the morning, clean the apartment, run those errands you’ve been meaning to for months now. you’ll go to a concert with your friends and smoke weed on a weeknight. creative and personal projects during the day. you’ll road trip with your brothers, go see your sister graduate, finish the books on your night stand. for just a little time, the world is your oyster.
May 15, 2024
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Mar 5, 2024
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quit my job (last day of work tomorrow). moving out of my apartment the next day. flying to the mediterranean this weekend with no return ticket
just been wrapping up loose ends and trying to enjoy all of my lasts.
no future plans, no career aspirations. this could all go really well or terribly wrong
Aug 13, 2024
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see it as a fun arc in your life... no structure... free to become and do and go wherever you want... also a stance against capitalism and toxic work hustling mentality... i am not unemployed, i just returned to my true form
Feb 27, 2024
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the fewer the better
soon i will switch my browsers away from the info-eating tech giants and no one will find me (except when i want to return and be found)
Nov 19, 2024
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for example. at this juncture of my life i am a brick wall. even a fortress, maybe. all obstacle. windows up high, no doors. something is happening inside, deep in the tower’s belly. the soft thing in the antechamber is glowing. it’s hardening like petrified wood. and no one would ever know, because it’s safe there. peaceful. no ego-drunk conquering lords come barreling in, no sad pilgrims, no tax collectors nor gamblers nor drunks nor pretty stable boys with ringlets enter here. the wall is impermeable and unscalable. every armchair explorer that has tried to climb it has given up, released and fallen into the waters below, more welcoming than the altitude. they, like most, were not ready for blisters. the brick wall is a happy wall, a technology without failures. press your face against it, hot from the sun, victorious
Nov 24, 2024
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money is tight this month, so i‘ll be making no further plans. i am telling myself that i will spend as little as possible. i will use my time to practice the solo creative tasks that gnaw away at my brain all day anyway, to journal and reflect, and to struggle to establish something of a routine again, until i can emerge feeling that i have a handle on myself (for now). sometimes it’s fun to be restrictive, reclusive. especially in the winter. during stretches like these, i like to think of myself as a hermit or an ascetic monk.
Jan 31, 2024