I'm up way too late
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I'm in Buenos Aires now, staying alone at B and J's apartment in Palermo.
I really fried my attention span over the last month. I blame instagram. Now working on putting it back together.
I'm getting better at recognising when I'm stuck in a patch of distracted inaction. This morning I wrote in my journal a big list of things to do, but still found myself jumping around different stimuli and tasks. Left the apartment and went to a local cafe with my note books. Managed to visualise and plan my week.
I've been frustrated lately with calendars, had thoughts of what I would build if I built my own? Not that I'm going to, but it's good to think about what I need and what I want to do. My pomodoro app is still something I use all the time and I'm so happy with it.
My plant project has stagnated, not sure where to go from here.
from here
- I beat the final boss in Breath of the Wild, it was surprisingly easy.
- I still can't beat any of the Lionels, or the tests of great strength
- I've still got a bit left of my latest Tank Mag - will finish before I leave. The interviews are really good, the essays leave a lot to be desired. They're so contrived, trying to shoehorn profundity into over analysed film reviews. They make gratuitous links between all kinds of fields, tenuous at best. Feels like first year media studies.
- I'm reading "How to Do Nothing" by Jenny Odell. I used to write a brief review and quotes from books after I finished them.
- by "used to" I mean for about 4 months
- I'm catching up on music now that I've got some alone time. Clyde Built radio, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, Ethel Caine's new drone album.
- I've got a quick and shoddy chimichurri cooling down in the freezer and I'm about to reheat leftovers from yesterday's parilla
- I am both really good and really bad at speaking spanish. My competence lets me feel ever more keenly my flaws.
I'm up way too late - tomorrow I'm going to go find a shop that sells rope and I'll try to make a bottle carrier.
I'm not really feeling anything at the moment - no emotions good nor bad.
listening to
questions
- what causes a feeling of emotional paralysis?