General thoughts, Library days are good days
3 minute read
Felt weird, a bit scatter brained yesterday. I think it was from lack of sleep. I'm happy with how much journaling I did yesterday, and I put some things in writing in Notion that I'd been wanting to do for a while.
Notion is a general purpose writing and organisational tool, it supports a whole variety of page types and formats. People use it for knowledge bases, product management, and more. I use it as a loose collection of things I have going on. I started using it in 2019, one long morning on the phone to my friend Alex, talking about the future and where we want to go. I'd put down a list for studying chemistry and becoming a professional perfumer (dreams are free).
Since then It's been used on and off. I've shifted off it for short term planning, but I still find it kind of helpful for broader things, and it's also where I dump links for sorting into chain.
Organisational tools are intimidating, the best ones are the ones you use. I've been using the bullet journal method to keep track of daily activites and to-dos, after writing increasingly more to-do lists on increasingly more pieces of scrap paper. I use it almost exclusively for daily tracking, the 'custom collections' part hasn't quite sunk in yet, but there's no rush.
It's taken me longer than I thought to understand SMART goals, and long term goals. They sound simple enough, yet the part inside me that takes a concept and weaves it into my warp has thus far refused. I can feel it coming around slowly; A feeling that my decisions thus far have been guided by desires and vague goals, and that the fruit of even these whispy branches has been sweet and fortifying - what could come from further cultivation? Who doesn't love an extended metaphor ae?
Left the house
I went to the library and paged through recipe books, taking photos of the ones I want to try. I brought home just one book about bread to read a little more thoroughly, and 3 art books (like a child in a candy store) that I will probably just flick through. Excitingly, I got a membership at the Melbourne Art Library and took home Paul Klee Notebooks volume 1: the thinking eye which I am very excited to get into. I've struggled to put the time aside for 1 hour of reading a day, but now that I'm waking up early each morning I hope this gets a bit easier.
I got a scoop of Ben and Jerrys 'Chocolate Therapy' and 'Coconut Seven Layer Bar'. The first flavour speaks for itself, the second one had walnuts in it (fantastic).
Did a small portion of weaving
Though being distracted most of the day I did eventually manage a modicum of weaving, starting on the facial features. It's nerve wracking, this is the crux of the design. All I can do is continue forwards and focus as much as possible. Today's task, after and inbetween the necessary daily goals, will be to get through the entire face.
I went to see Tia Ansell's Connors Connors before bouldering last nigth, an inspirational small set of well executed weavings.
What else
I'm a little frustrated at how average and buggy forge is.
return.horse/postman is one of my favourites so far - not as popular as some others but I really like the rythm and silliness of it, and the caption text - "Postboy Cowman".